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THE SCIENCE 



THE RUBICON IS PASSED! 



THE SCIENCE 



imtojrnmtt of ilt gwmM Tamils 



DISCOVERED, CLASSIFIED, SYSTEMIZED, AND EXPLAINED, 



By ELISHA CHASE. 



Man need not longer dwell in darkness. 
For he may rise to joy and happiness : 
Because a light from above has come. 
To guide him to a more brilliant home. 




DETROIT: 

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 

1859. 





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INTRODUCTION. 



THE AUTHOR of this work can imagine some of the objec- 
tions that will be raised against the facts he has assumed, 
because he can see it is not in accordance with the precon- 
ceived notions of many persons. But let every one take into 
account that, in reality, there is but one way to develop the 
human family to a pure religious condition, consequently there 
is but one true religion, and but one kind of heavenly feli- 
city — although different grades of it, yet all from the same 
Lord. And as there are so many different notions and ideas 
on the subject of religion, let all then consider that they are 
not all right, and others all wrong, but that among the mul- 
tiplicity of minds every one may have some good about them 
as well as themselves ; that the Tree of Knowledge, Wisdom, 
and Religion has many branches, and that they occupy only 
their particular branch, and that under the present state of 
development of man, one can see but very dimly from one 
branch to the other ; and that a day is coming when the eyes 
of the people will be opened, so they will see clearly all the 
branches of it. They will then, to them, be blended in one 
great body of the Tree of Knowledge, Wisdom, and Spiritu- 
ality. Also that, in order to open their eyes, it may be 
necessary that some new discovery is needed to effect it — 
which is no doubt true ; hence no one's notions on the sub- 
ject are correct, thus all may need improvement, some more, 
some less, as the case may be. 

This discovery is the one needed to show the true Science 
that will unite all the branches of the Tree of Knowledge, 
Wisdom, and Spirituality, because there is no other science 
that will effect it; and this is made so plain here, by the 



9 Introduction. 

classification of its branches, and the elucidation of them, that 
DO 6Q6 need err therein. * 

It is a well known fact that almost every new discovery 
in science and philosophy, or anything that would improve 
the mental and spiritual condition of the human family has 
been opposed, at its first introduction. Instance: The Patri- 
archs and Prophets of old lived and died amidst a strong 
opposition. Christ and the Apostles — the Saviour and salt of 
the earth — were persecuted and put to death for teaching 
their new truths. Galileo had to retract his sayings when 
he discovered the world to be round. Columbus met a most 
violent opposition in carrying out his plans of the discovery 
of America; and almost every Christian denomination that 
lias ever been established have had to do so through oppo- 
sition and persecution. And, as Christ said, a prophet is not 
without honor, save in his own country and in his own house- 
hold ; especially, where persons are acquainted, they meet 
with the strongest opposition in case of new discoveries of 
this nature. 

That was the case when Christ was in the flesh, and it 
is so in this age. And the Author has hesitated whether it 
would not be better to go among strangers to get his dis- 
covery published; but, upon consideration, he concluded the 
stronger the opposition it met with, the greater would be the 
reaction in its favor, because truth is mighty and must prevail. 

This feeling that prevents the best gifts of persons from 
being appreciated, and that underrates them at home, is a 
plain case of the lack of knowledge — it is a feeling the Au- 
thor is at a loss to find words to describe. It must be a 
combination of jealousy, prejudice, and misdirected spiritual 
gifts ; and such a disposition in persons prevails at the present 
time to an alarming extent, because it prevents almost all 
persons from cultivating and improving their talents. And 
as the Author is aware of such a state of things existing to 
oppose the introduction of his discovery, he expects therefore 
it will meet with opposition: that some will call it a humbug; 
others, delusion ; others, imagination ; and others will say 
the Author is insane. 



Development of the Human Family. 3 

Let those who think it a humbug, read it before they call 
it so, and then they will be better able to qualify it, so they 
can tell whether it is a little or great humbug. 

Let those who think it a delusion also read it before they 
call it so, and then reflect upon it and inquire of themselves, 
and let their own impressions decide whether it is a delusion ; 
and they will discover the delusion lies in another direction. 

And let those who think the Author is insane, read it, out 
of curiosity to see what can come out of a crazy man. 

Reader, no one need to try to pass off the principles and 
truths presented in this pamphlet as a delusion, imagination, 
or the result of insanity, because in the main it is as true as 
that you breathe. If it is not, then our very existence is a 
delusion — an imagination — a phantom; for if we exist there 
is a Science to develop us from the instinctive condition to 
an intellectual and higher spiritual one. We discern in every 
direction persons possessing gifts and talents far superior to 
others; and we all can discern, in all things and persons, 
progression and improvement, and that the gifts are divided 
among mankind, and each one profits by them, according to 
their goodness, as St. Paul said. But earnestly covet the 
best gifts, and he would show a more excellent way. There- 
fore there must be a Science to develop these gifts, or else 
it would be useless for persons to seek to improve them. 

Then, what is this Science if it is not what the Author 
has elucidated? Let the one who can, gainsay it; or dis- 
cover and explain the true one, if this is not ; and if there is 
no one that can, let the fastidious hold their peace. 

Read it, everybody, out of curiosity, if for nothing more. 
If it is a delusion it is a gigantic one : or if it is a truth, it is also 
a gigantic, sublime, and all -important one. The Author does 
not claim that he has got this Science perfect in all its details, 
but that he has only given some of the outlines of it, which, 
for all intents and purposes, are as perfect as any discovery 
or invention has been when first discovered or invented. 

The following should have been inserted after the descrip- 
tion of the organs in the Chart, on the last page, but was 
omitted in the hurry of publishing: 



4 Introduction. 

u TSm other divisions in the engraving are branches of 
the main organs, ami derive their power and faculties from. 
them, B8 may be; which are explained in a separate Chart, 
in the possession of the Author, in which he has made a sub- 
division of the departments and organs." 



THE SCIENCE 



QtbtUymni uf i\t fttmau ^amilj. 



THE AUTHOR of this book claims to have made the most 
important discovery in science that ever was made by man, 
and that which will be of the most benefit to mankind of any 
discovery that ever has been, or ever will be, or ever can be, 
made, because it is the discovery of the science that develops 
man to a perfect condition, even as our Father in Heaven is 
perfect. It is the discovery of the meaning and explanation 
of the vision recorded in the first chapter of Ezekiel, where 
was represented to him the appearance of a wheel in the middle 
of a wheel, which, elucidated and connected with other portions 
of Scripture and their elucidations, and all compared with modern 
science and manifestations, will show that the appearance in 
that vision was the representation of a science within a science, 
and that they constitute the great Science of Development of 
the Human Family in all its departments, Mechanical, Musical, 
Pictorial, Intellectual, Moral, and Religious, and their subdi- 
visions. And, therefore, to present to the world this great and 
all -important discovery, and let the joyful news be spread over 
the world, and to let it be known that the science that will 
develop man to the millenium condition has been discovered, is 
the object of this book. 

And in doing this, the writer will first show that the sciences 
in Ezekiel's vision united constitute the Science of Religion, and 
that is the great Science of Development of Man ; that one 
wheel represented God's Science, and the other Man's Science of 
Development; that man was made after the image of God, and 
has, by his acts, alienated from Him, and that the development of 
Man's Science will bring him back to God, and unite the two 
Sciences, and thus produce a harmonious condition of man, and 



6 Development 0/ the Human Family. 

also bring him in affinity with God, when all shall know the 
Lord, from the least to the greatest. And also show that man 
can develop Ins science so that the present generation may 
increase in knowledge and wisdom, some an hundred, some 

sixty, and some thirty ibid; also the modus operandi of its 
development. 

The remark has often been made by men of learning that 
improvements and reforms have become so general that nothing 
new presented to the world should be disputed until investi- 
gated by competent persons to judge of its merits; and this 
being something new, all are earnestly requested to read before 
passing judgment thereon. And to proceed to that task, the 
writer will first present such portions of Ezekiel's vision as he 
may think necessary for the purpose of his elucidation of it, 
for the purposes thus stated. 

Hence, in the first chapter of Ezekiel, beginning at the fifth 
verse : 



living creatures. And this was their appearance ; they had the 

likeness of a man. 

"6 And' every one had four faces, and every one had four 

wings." 

******* 

" 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face 
of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side : and they 
four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had 
the face of an eagle. 

w 11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched 
upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another^ 
and two covered their bodies. 

u 12 * * * whither the spirit was to go, they went. * * * 

"13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appear- 
ance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance 
of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and 
the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 

"14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the ap- 
pearance of a flash of lightning. 

"15 •[ Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one 
wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four 
faces. 

"16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like 

unto the color of a beryl : and they four had one likeness : and 

their appearance and their work w T as as it were a wheel in the 

middle of a wheel." 

******* 

"18 As for their rings they were so high that they were 
dreadful; * * ** 



Development of the Human Family. 7 

44 ig * * * an( j w h en the living creatures were lifted up 
from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 

" 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither 
was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over 
against them : for the spirit of the living creature was in the 
wheels." 

" 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of 
the living creature was as the color of the terrible crystal, 
stretched forth over their heads above." 

" 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, 
* * * as the voice of the Almighty, * * * as the noise of an 
host:" * * * 

"26 T And above the firmament that was over their heads 
was the likeness of a throne: * * * and upon the likeness of 
the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above 
upon it." 

44 28 * * * This was the appearance of the likeness of the 
glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, 
and I heard a voice of one that spake." 

Now the author can not learn that any person has ever un- 
dertook to explain this vision of Ezekiel, but that theologians 
have generally passed it off as a vision, without trying to 
explain it. But of all the visions recorded in the Bible, this 
one far exceeds in importance to man any other, and in beauty 
and sublimity, as it, when expounded, will reveal to man the 
Developing Science of his progressive development, and open to 
his view the brightness of the glory of God, and consequently 
develop the human family to a harmonious and god -like condi- 
tion, or, in other words, the millenium condition. 

The reader will perceive this is a vast and complicated sub- 
ject, and to go into the whole explanation and interlining of 
the whole of it would make hundreds of volumes. The writer, 
therefore, will only pretend to give §pme of the outlines, and 
send the first communication upon the wire, as Professor Morse 
did, and leave it for others to assist him in further elucidations 
of the great and mighty work which it will present to the 
world for improvement. 

And, with these preliminaries, the writer will proceed to the 
work he has promised in his manifesto. 

First, Ezekiel saw in his vision "the likeness of four living 
creatures"; and they "had the likeness of a man," "and every 
one had four faces " — one was the likeness of the face of a man, 
another that of a lion, another that of an ox, the other that of 
an eagle. Now, these were the representatives of the four De- 
veloping Departments of Man's Developing Science of his na- 
ture. First, that face which had the appearance of a man, was 



S Development of the ituman Family. 

the representation oi % the Spiritual Department, because man 
was made after the image of God; that which had the appear- 
ance of a lion the Intellectual Department, as intellect and 
knowledge is power, and the lion is a powerful animal; the 
third the appearance of an o.r, the Domestic Department, as the 
ox ifl a domestic animal; the fourth, that which had the appear- 
ance of an eagle, the Selfish Department, as the eagle is a de- 
vouring bird, and well represents the selfishness of man. 

But in regard to these sciences that constitute the Science 
of Development of the Human Family, the author will first 
state that all modern improvements and reforms have been 
founded or built upon inventions or discoveries made by others. 
For illustration, when Morse invented the sending communica- 
tions upon wires, long and long before that time some person or 
persons invented how to manufacture copper from the ore into 
wire ; and many other things necessary for that purpose, and 
thus a great foundation w r as laid for him in making his great in- 
vention and discovery. And so it is in regard to this discovery. 
Theologians and Phrenologists have got the wires manufactured; 
and the author claims by his discovery that he has learned to 
send the communications upon them ; and, as Professor Morse's 
invention has annihilated time in sending communications, and 
nothing can be discovered whereby it can be sent in a short 
time, and only the manner of doing it can be improved upon — 
that is, different machinery to do the work faster, &c. — so the 
author claims his discovery has sounded the bottom of the Sci- 
ence of Development of Man; that no more soundings are ne- 
cessary to find its foundation, but it only needs building upon to 
rear the temple of the Developing Science of the great family 
of Man, which will produce the millenium condition. Thus, 
Theologians have only got as near to the true science of re- 
ligion as those who had learned to manufacture the wire to the 
sending communications of the speed of lightning upon them. 
So it is with Phrenologists ; they have only got the wires made. 
Or, to illustrate in another way: The author claims his dis- 
covery is as much improvement upon the present Theology and 
Phrenology as the telegraph is in speed over that of railroad 
speed ; and as the telegraph speed is the fastest that can be, 
and thus is the ultimatum of speed in sending communications. 
But it may be improved upon to send more at one time, &c, so 
the writer claims his discovery has reached an ultimatum of the 
Developing Science of Man. 

But as a wire stretched out a long distance, standing at one 
end it would look much smaller at the other, but by traveling 
along toward the other end it would be of the same size its whole 
length, thus it is with this Science; — by this discovery, the ex- 
treme end and ultimatum of it can be seen — it appears smaller 



Development of the Human Family. 9 

In the distance, it can be traced as well as the wire can be fol- 
lowed, and its full size made visible to its end and ultimatum, as 
the wire would appear the same size by traveling along by it its 
whole length. Therefore, the author only claims that he has dis- 
covered how to send the communications upon the wires which 
have been manufactured by Theologians and Phrenologists — 
that is, that it is as much an improvement upon Theology and 
Phrenology as the telegraph is, in that of speed, over railroads ; 
which will be made apparent to every intelligent reader of this 
book. 

The two sciences the author has called, one the Science of 
God, and the other Man's Science of Development of the Hu- 
man Family, but in reality, both are God's sciences ; because He 
is the author of all sciences, as of every thing else ; but as man 
has to act, and to do a certain part of the work to accomplish his 
development, that part which is assigned to him by the Maker 
of all things in the great work of his development was repre- 
sented to Ezekiel as the wheel in the middle of the wheel. The 
greater wheel represented the spirit of God, throwing influence 
on man to develop in him wisdom, and the other represented 
man in the attitude of asking of Him wisdom — as Christ said 
" Ask and you shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto 
you " ; that is, man has got to put himself in a condition to re- 
ceive influence from the spirit of God, because His spirit is 
continually striving with man, to develop in him wisdom, and 
when he is seeking for it in the right way he will surely receive 
wisdom from God. 

That man has a certain work to do to effect his spiritual and 
intellectual development is very apparent, because in material 
things they are left by God in so crude or uncultivated state 
that man has to labor and manufacture them to make them use- 
ful to him. As for instance, He has given us the seed for our 
grains and food, wool and cotton for our clothing, but we have 
to cultivate the ground to raise them ; and so with all the mate- 
rial things we use — it requires labor of man to prepare them 
for his use ; it is God's science to cause them to grow when man 
has put them in a condition to receive the influence of God's 
spirit, which is the life-giving and the life -preserving element 
that pervades and permeates all space and substances. And this 
is the element that is thrown upon man to develop him both 
physically and spiritually by God with his angels; and this is 
God's Science of Development, represented to Ezekiel as the 
wheel and another wheel within it. And this is shown by St. 
Paul, in the 12th chapter of I. Corinthians, where he says there 
are diversities of spiritual gifts and of operations, "but it is the 
same God which moveth all in all." u To one is given by the 
Spirit, the word of wisdom : to another the word of knowledge, 



10 Development of the Human Family, 

by the Bame spirit; to another faith * * *; to another the gifts 
of healing * * *J to another the working of miracles; Jo an- 
other prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another 
divers kinds of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues: 
but all these worketh that one and selfsame Spirit, dividing to 
every man severally as he will." Now, these gifts St. Paul 
only casually mentioned without explaining them; he only en- 
deavored to show they are from the same Spirit. Had it been 
revealed to him how to explain them fully, and he had done so, 
the world would not have remained in the dark condition it has 
to the present time — mankind would a long time ago have been 
intellectually and spiritually developed; but St. Paul had not an 
organization through which the Spirit could give the explana- 
tion — he was therefore inspired to write about the manifesta- 
tions only he had seen; and there never has been a person that 
had an organization sufficiently developed, whereby an explana- 
tion could be inspired through it, previous to the beginning of 
this discovery, equal to the explanation which is about to be 
given here; and the reasons why St. Paul, or any other person 
has not been enough developed to be inspired to give the expia- 
tion, will hereafter be elucidated in this book. 

These gifts which St. Paul mentions are the gift of God, and 
constitute His Science of Development, and has four depart- 
ments, which w r ere shown to Ezekiel as the likeness of four liv- 
ing creatures, with their four faces that had the appearance of 
a man. And the departments of these gifts, as given by St. 
Paul, are divided as follows: 

The Outward Demonstrations. The Inward Demonstrations. - 

1. The Gift of Faith. 1. The Gift of Healing. 

2. The Gift of Divers Tongues 2. The Gift of Prophecying. 
and of Interpreting Tongues. 

The Onward, Demonstrations. The Upward Demonstrations. 

1. The Gift of Knowledge. 1. The Gift of Discerning Spirits. 

2. The Gift of Performing Mira- 2. The Gift of Wisdom, 
cles. 

Now, it can not be otherwise than true But that persons 
were possessed of these gifts in the days of the Apostles, be- 
cause St. Paul spoke of it as a general thing, and the gift of 
prophecy w r as very common, and there were well- developed 
prophets for many centuries previous to St. Paul's time, and 
that there has been in all ages those who had the gift of pro- 
phecy, and also persons who have had the gifts of wisdom, faith, 
and all the gifts spoken of by St. Paul. And the same gifts 
persons have now, but they are not so much developed now a& 
they have been in some ages of the world, because the intel 



Development of the Human Family. 11 

lectual and selfish departments of man have become more de- 
veloped in him ; thus, they have power over the spiritual, and 
prevent that from being developed to that degree it has been in 
some former ages. God is the same yesterday, to#-day, and 
for ever; and if persons had these gifts then, persons have them 
now; and this is true. The author has seen demonstrated 
through each gift plain and unmistakeable manifestations, and 
those that are identical with those mentioned by St. Paul; 
hence there is as much proof that persons had those gifts then, 
and that persons have them now, as that animals existed then, 
and that they do now, because it is mentioned in the Bible, in 
numerous places, that there were animals in all ages of the 
world, and unless they had existed when the Bible was written 
such a record never would have been made; and with such 
proof, and the fact that they do now exist, proves the former 
existence without any doubt, even if there were no fossil remains 
to prove it. So it is with these spiritual manifestations; if there 
had not been such gifts, St. Paul would never have thought of 
them — even he could not have thought of them; and the fact 
of persons having those gifts at the lifetime of St. Paul, and 
that persons have the same kinds of gifts now, is positive evi- 
dence that there are such gifts. 

The author has said this much to convince those who may 
dispute the truth of the Bible, and show to them that St. Paul's 
account of spiritual gifts is true as that animals existed then. 
But as St. Paul did not explain the operations of those gifts, 
they have not been understood, therefore his casual mention of 
them has done but little good to the present time ; but when 
they are explained and understood aright it will have the effect 
to enlighten the world, and eventually develop the human 
family to the millennium condition. The elucidation and the 
modus operandi of the development of these gifts is the 
foundation the author's discovery of God's Science of Human 
Development. And in order to do it, it will be necessary to 
explain the operations of the different departments, which are 
as follows : 

I. The Outward Demonstrations. The Faith Gift is a de- 
monstration of the Spirit upon the person possessing that gift, 
and causing some outward movement of that person to prove 
that it is a manifestation of the Spirit ; — in other words, it is a 
proof gift. In Speaking Divers Tongues and Interpreting 
Tongues, the Spirit takes control of the speaking organs of 
the one having that gift, in a way that a movement of them is 
visible to others. Hence, the manifestation of these gifts are 
outward, because the operations of them are visible upon the 
persons having those gifts. 

II. The Inward Demonstrations. In the Healing Gift the 



19 Development of the Human Family. 

influence of the Spirit passes iritJiin, and is thrown out and upon 
the disease by passes of the hand. And in the Prophecying 
Gift, the intelligence, or the information, is derived by its Being 
impressed by the Spirit witliin the organization, and the organ 
of language imparts it. 

III. T/ic Onward Demonstrations. The Knowledge Gift is 
one that is improving, because the influence of the Spirit is 
imparting by the aid of that gift more knowledge; thus it is, as 
a consequence, an onward manifestation. The Gift of Per- 
forming Miracles is also onward, because those having it can im- 
prove the gift by cultivation and development. 

IV. 77/ c Upwafd Demonstrations. Discerning of Spirits 
is an upward demonstration, because the influence of the Spirit 
is thrown into the organization from above, and thus opens the. 
spiritual sight. And also with Wisdom Gift, the Spirit throws 
an influence from on high that impresses the wisdom within the 
organization, and the organ of language imparts it. The modus 
operandi and operations of these gifts, and their development, 
will be explained hereafter. 

The influence of the Spirit of God is imparted to man 
through these gifts, to develop him, and the modus operandi of 
imparting it for that purpose is God's Science of Development 
of the Human Family. 

Thus having shown what God's Science of Development is, 
the author will proceed to show what is Man's Science of De- 
velopment. 

As has been said, man has four departments to his organiza- 
tion, the Spiritual, the Intellectual, the Domestic, and the Self- 
ish, which were represented to Ezekiel as four faces. 

The Spiritual is that which directly receives the influence of 
God's Holy Spirit, and are the organs immediately surrounding 
the receptivity, which are — 1. Veneration; 2. Conscientious- 
ness; 3. Benevolence; 4. Firmness; 5. Hope; 6. Self-Esteem. 

The Domestic Department are those organs through which 
the influence of the Spirit passes after being received by the 
Spiritual, and its character is in accordance with the prominency 
of the organs of each. The organs of this Department are — 
1. Amativeness; 2. Inhabitiveness ; 3. Philoprogenitiveness ; 
4. Affinitiveness ; 5. Tune; 6. Time. 

The Intellectual Department are those organs which the 
influence of the Spirit is thrown into when they are in a condi- 
tion to receive it, and are — 1. Order; 2. Calculation; 3. Caus- 
ality ; 4. Form ; 5. Comparison ; 6. Constructiveness. 

The organs of the Selfish Department are those which re- 
ceive the influence of the Spirit only when they are in a condi- 
tion to ; and they are — 1. Vitativeness ; 2. Acquisitiveness; 
3. Secretiveness ; 4. Destructiveness; 5. Combativeness ; 6. Cau- 
tiousness. 



Development of the Human Family. 13 

Now it is necessary to have all the organs of these four De- 
partments rightly developed, to receive the influence of the 
Holy Spirit in the right way to bring man to a harmonious con- 
dition, and the modus operandi and operations to obtain a 
harmonious condition is Man's Science of Development of the 
Human Family. And in order to elucidate them, it will be 
necessary to go more into detail of God's Science of Develop- 
ment of Man. 

It has already been said that St. Paul only casually spoke of 
these Spiritual Gifts, without explaining them — therefore left 
the matter almost wholly in the dark ; yet the little seed he 
then sowed will at some distant day yield abundantly, and do 
much towards enlightening the world. And St. Paul only gave 
in his account of the gifts, the four principal arms to the wheel 
of God's Science of Development, and the mere details will be 
to describe the filling-in work of the wheel, as follows : The 
Science is composed of twenty-four Developing Gifts ; six Out- 
ward, six Inward, six Onward, and six Upward Demonstrations, 
as follows : 

Outward Demonstrations. Inward Demonstrations. 

1. The Proof Gift. 7. Speaking Gift. 

2. Speaking Divers Tongues. 8. Healing Gift. 

3. Interpreting Tongues. 9. Writing Gift. 

4. Telegraphic Gift. 10. Prophecying Gift. 
6. Personating Gift. 12. Psychometic Gift, 
6. Manipulating Gift. 11. Psychologic Gift. 

Onward Demonstrations. Upward Demonstrations. 

13. Musical Gift. 19. Clairvoyant Gift. 

14. Poetical Gift. 20. Impressional Gift. 

15. Mechanical Gift. 21. Clarative Gift. 

16. Developing Gift. 22. Raising Gift. 

17. Moving Gift. 23. Tipping Gift. 

18. Pictorial Gift. 24. Vibratory Gift. 

And these four departments were represented to Ezekiel as 
four wings to each of the living creatures that had the appear- 
ance of a man, and gave it the appearance to him of a finished 
wheel, in the operations of their development. These gifts in 
their operations are only the same that St. Paul spoke of; as may 
be seen by comparing them. For instance, the first department 
of Outward Demonstrations relates more particularly to the 
faith or proof, and divers tongues and interpreting tongues gifts ; 
and the Inward to that of prophecying and imparting an influ- 
ence to heal : the Onward, to that of learning knowledge and of 
performing what is called miracles : the Upward to that of dis- 
cerning spirits, and learning and imparting wisdom. Thus he 
says that some had gifts of knowledge and others of wisdom ; 



14 Development of the Human Family. 

but did not say why they bad them, or bow many ways those 
gifts were bestowed upon man — or how they were divided to 
every man severally as he will, as he expressed it. But this 
classification shows the diversity of the Developing Gifts of Man 
in their scientific order. And this classification embraces all the 
main spiritual gifts and all the principal timbers of Ezekiel's 
wheel that was upon the earth with his four feces, which repre- 
sented these four departments of the developing science. 

But the operations of this science has many phases, which 
will be described hereafter. 

Next in order will be to explain why there are a diversity of 
spiritual gifts and powers — why one has one gift and others 
other kinds, and given to every man to profit withal by the same 
spirit. 

The diversity is in consequence of there being different or- 
ganizations. Certain organs being prominent in one person 
gives that person one of those gifts, and certain others being 
prominent in another person he has another gift, and so on. 
But before explaining and showing what organs are prominent 
to make the different gifts, it will be necessary, in order to have 
it understood, to mention them in their order, and their relative 
influence in their office of development of man. 

1. Left Intuition. The receptivity of spiritual power and influence. 

2. Eight Intuition. The receptivity of knowledge and wisdom. 

The Spiritual Department. 

1. Veneration. Love of God, and to worship Him — the prepondera- 

ting spiritual organ. 

2. Conscientiousness. Love of nobleness of character ; truth ; inate 

feeling to do right. 
3 Benevolence. Desire to see and make others happy ; willingness to 

sacrifice for that purpose ; kindness and sympathy for distress. 
4. Firmness. Decision and stability of character, 
6. Hope. Anticipation of future happiness and heavenly felicity. 
6, Self -Esteem. Self-respect; manly feelings ; pride of character. 

Intellectual Department. 

1. Order. Harmony; system of things, 

2. Calculation. Ability to reckon figures, compute numbers, &c, 

3. Causality. Power of receiving and discerning principles, and of 

showing the relations of cause and effect. 

4. Form, Recollection of shape and configuration of things. 

5. Comparison. Perceptibility to compare, illustrate, criticise, and 

generalize things. 

6. Constructiveness. Mechanical ingenuity to invent, build machinery, 

&c. 

Domestic Department. 

1. Amatvveness. Love of the sexes and connubial attachment. 

2. Inhabitiveness. Love of home ; attachment to the place where one 

has lived ; a good feeling towards mankind. 



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3. Philoprogenitiveness. Love of children; fondness for pets; parental 

attachment. 

4. Affinitweness. Attachment and love for the opposite sex; having 

like affinity. 

5. Tune. Sense of melody, and musical faculty. 

6. Time. Memory; and internal faculty. 

Selfish Department. 

1. Vitativeness. Love of existence; dread of annihilation.* 

2. Acquisitiveness. Desire of possessing property and to keep it for 

selfish purposes. 

3. Secretiveness. Cunning; artful and deceiving propensity. 

4. Destructiveness. Energy and forcible power, and destroying disposi- 

tion. 

5. Comhativeness. Kesisting, resenting, fighting propensity. 

6. Cautiousness. A selfish disposition to guard self, property, and gen- 

eral interests. 

These are the principal organs in the wheel of Man's Sci" 
ence of Development, but a subdivision of them shows a 
large number in the wheel, of a less magnitude, but necessary 
to make it perfect. But these minor organs will be exhibited 
in a Chart prepared for that purpose. 

Next in order after this classification of the organs is to elu- 
cidate what makes this diversity of spiritual or developing gifts 
— which are one and the same thing, because it is the Spirit of 
God influencing man, and striving with him to develop him to a 
higher condition of intellect, and learn him wisdom. 

It has already been said that the difference in the organiza- 
tion of persons was the reason of the diversity of these gifts. 
And to explain this fact, the author will take up the different 
gifts in order, and give the organs that are prominent to each 
gift; but before doing that he will say that by actual observa- 
tions he has ascertained the great and important truth that to 
have one of these gifts a person must be blessed with prominent 
spiritual organs; that no one can be developed to a degree that 
they can be the medium of any spiritual manifestations that will 
be observable by any one without them ; and that spiritual gifts 
are inherited, that the blessing of these gifts in the fathers ex- 
tend to their children, even to the third and fourth generations; 
and on the other side, if the forefathers have conducted in a 
manner to have grieved away the Spirit, and become so mate- 
rial that these gifts can not be developed, the curse will extend 
to their children, even to the third and fourth generations. 
This is the meaning of the Scriptures where it says the iniqui- 
ties of the fathers are visited upon their children, even to the 
third and fourth generations ; that grieving away the Spirit is 
the seeking after selfish and earthly things to that degree that 
the selfish and intellectual organs become so prominent the 
Spirit can not influence the spiritual ones to produce any spir- 
itual manifestations, or develop them so the person can have any 



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spiritual gifts. Thia is the way man lias alienated from God, 
because he has not kept his spiritual faculties developed in pro- 
portion with his intellectual faculties, and in proportion to the 
expansion of Ins selfish propensities — thus producing an inhar- 
monious condition of man's development, and bringing him more 
under the influence of evil than that of God, which is good. 
And the development of the spiritual organs will bring him 
back to God — that is, in a condition that will be under the influ- 
ence of the Good Spirit, and consequently in affinity with God 
and his holy angels, when all shall know the Lord, from the 
least to the greatest. And the great thing that is necessary to 
be learned is how to develop the organs of each department 
oi man's phrenological organization to a harmonious condition, 
which will be a Godly condition. This is the great Science 
of Religion and Spirituality — the process or modus operandi 
and operations of such a development. This was what Eze- 
kiel saw in his vision — the influence of the Spirit falling upon 
man, and influencing the organs which constituted his spiritual 
gifts. It is a great misfortune that all men do not possess 
these gifts, but in consequence of the lack of knowledge of this 
Science many have got far from the spiritual principles of God, 
and have consequently alienated from him and become so ma- 
terialistic that the holy influence of God's angels can not reach 
their spiritual organs that constitute these gifts. This is the 
condition of about one- half of the people of the enlightened 
portions of the world at the present time. They have become 
so material their spiritual organs can not be developed enough 
to produce any spiritual manifestations, and consequently they 
must leave this world without the blessing of a spiritual de- 
velopment ; but if they will learn this science of religious culti- 
vation, they can improve their condition much here — some 
thirty and some sixty and some a hundred fold. Those who 
have the organs that can be cultivated enough to develop 
these gifts, if they will but learn this Science they can improve 
their already spiritual faculties, and grow in grace and wisdom 
— some an hundred, some sixty, and some thirty fold.~ And 
this is the way the world is to be enlightened and man de- 
veloped to the millenium condition. 

When this Science is understood, men will improve their 
condition by cultivation, and become more pure and more wise 
and religious, and consequently the next generation will partake 
of its blessings, and be more pure and more wise; and the next 
still more; and so on, till a harmonious development is reached; 
and as harmony is the first law of nature, when man has ob- 
tained that state he will be in harmony with nature and with 
nature's God, and thus be in affinity with Him. Thus, this Sci- 
ence is the great plan of salvation, because it is the plan of the 



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Author of man's existence to develop him to a condition with 
Himself. Then the first thing towards bringing man to this 
condition is to learn this Science ; therefore the author will re- 
turn more particularly to that branch of the subject.' 

Then, first in the classification of these gifts, is the Proof. 
In order to possess this gift, the Left Intuition must be large (it 
may be well here to state many persons have strong powers of 
several of the gifts — some more and some less — but that one 
of them predominates; and the organs which predominate and 
are prominent to make that particular gift, is only proposed to 
be given, because to elucidate the whole of its diversity would 
take volumes), because it requires strong spiritual power and 
influence to give a test or inspire faith, and as the Left Intuition 
is the receptivity of them, it must be large to make that gift. 
And the organ of Benevolence is next prominent in this gift, 
because no person can have any of those gifts unless some of 
their spiritual organs are prominent, and as Benevolence is a 
good feeling tow r ards our fellow -man, which is one of the com- 
mands of God — to love your neighbor — consequently it draws 
strongly from God, the fountain of all power and love, 
through the receptivity of spiritual power and influence. The 
organ of Form is next in prominency for this gift, because it 
gives a tangible character to the manifestations made by this 
gift, and inspires confidence in their reality. 

It may be well again here to state that it is not proposed 
to give all the organs that are prominent to make each gift, but 
only three or four of those that are most prominent to each 
gift ; nor to explain why it is necessary they should be promi- 
nent to make that particular one, except some of those which 
may be easily understood when they are so explained. There- 
fore some of the organs will be stated that are prominent to 
make some of these gifts without explanation, and others will 
be explained to a certain extent. This course is taken, because 
there would be too much sameness about it, and because of the 
great length of matter it would make, as this is only intended 
for a beginning of a great end. 

The next gift in the classification is the Speaking Divers 
Tongues. For this the organ of Comparison predominates, 
next Individuality, and next Causality, from which emanates 
the power of language; and next Hope, which draws the 
spiritual power. In Interpreting Tongues Veneration pre- 
dominates; Order and Causality next. For the Telegraphic 
Gift the Left Intuition must be large, because it requires much 
force to produce the demonstration of telegraphing, and re- 
quires large Comparison and Individuality, in which is the power 
of Concentration ; also a large Hope. In the Personating Gift 
Order predominates, in which is the power of imitation ; and 



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Benevolence and Form. Manipulating Gift: Constructiveness 
— the seal of the power of labor, and from which is derived 
the appetite for food — predominates; because the act of manip- 
ulating is labor, and that increases the appetite for food, hence 
Alimentiveness is prominent in one possessing this gift; Mar- 
velousness and Benevolence are also next prominent. These 
gifts all have Outward Manifestations prominent. 
\ The Inward Demonstration Gifts are, first the * Speaking. 
Causality, from which the power of language is derived, pre- 
dominates in this gift, and /feneration is next in prominency and 
\ Intuition large. It may be well to state here that there are 
four prominent phases of this gift. 1. The speaking by im- 
pression in the conscious state; 2. By impression in the 
unconscious state; 3. By the Spirit controlling the organs of 
the person to speak in the conscious condition; and, 4. In 
the unconscious condition : and that the first phase mentioned is 
the one in which the organs stated are most prominent. 

The Healing Gift comes next in this classification ; and this 
being one of so great consequence, for not only the benefit of 
the body, but of the soul, it may be well to explain it some- 
what extensively. 

The healing power or influence is derived from God, who 
is the Great Physician, both of the body and the soul. He is 
a spirit, and that is an element, and pervades and permeates all 
space and substances, so that the sparrow can not fall to the 
ground without falling through it, and every hair of our heads 
is numbered, because it is filled with this all prevailing ele- 
ment, the Holy Spirit. In this element the healing influence of 
God is, and if a certain quantity is rightly applied to the dis- 
ease of the body, or to the soul, it will, in consequence, heal 
in proportion to its application; hence it requires the right or 
certain conditions to apply it for that purpose. These condi- 
tions require certain organs to be prominent in persons to give 
them the Gift of Healing. And these are, 1. Inhabitiveness, 
which predominates ; and next, Veneration, and the Left Intui- 
tion large, because one having Inhabitiveness large has a good 
feeling tow r ards his fellow -man, which is one of God's great 
principles, and one of those of the Golden Rule, "Love thy 
neighbor as thyself" — "Do unto others as you would wish 
them to do unto you"; and Christ said, "Love one another," 
&c; and if man loves his fellow -man, he will surely love God, 
and love his home. Veneration being next prominent, which 
is that which inspires love for God, and a feeling to worship 
Him, and thus it will attract influence from his Spirit. And 
the Left Receptivity being also large, and thus giving a large 
quantity of the influence and the power required to apply it to 
the disease. Thus the love of home and of man and the love 



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of God draws largely from the healing influence of the Great 
Physician Himself, and by the power received from Him, 
through the receptivity of this power, it can be applied by 
manipulation or the laying on of hands, and the sick thus be 
cured of all curable diseases. 

The Writing Gift is next in order. There are three promi- 
nent phases to this gift. First, the mechanical in the conscious 
state, is that in which the spirit takes control of the hand, and 
moves it to write, and does write the handwriting of the spirit 
having such a control. For this phase of this gift the organ of 
Constructiveness predominates, because it is a mechanical opera- 
tion to write, and Left Intuition is large; and Veneration is next 
most prominent, for this phase of this gift. Another phase of 
the Writing Gift is the impressional in the conscious state; 
and the knowledge and wisdom imparted by it is as purely in- 
spiration as is given through any other gift. It was by the 
means of it that Moses wrote his writings in the Bible. The 
other phase is the mechanical writing in the trance condition, 
whereby the writings is in the hand of the spirit having control 
of the medium. 

The Prophecying Gift. For this Time predominates, from 
which the power of recollection emanates, which gives the fac- 
ulty to tell the past. And the next prominent organ for pro- 
phecying is Hope, which gives power to look into the future. 

The Psychologic Gift is next in order. This is the power 
of mind over mind and of spirit over spirit. One gets the con- 
trol of the other, consequently the organ of Destructiveness 
predominates, which gives force and energy, and, with the 
organs of Veneration and Firmness, which are next prominent, 
with a large Left Intuition, they give the person possessing 
them a spiritual power over those who are susceptible of spir- 
itual influence to a certain degree, and.who have not got these 
organs as large. 

The Psychometic Gift. This is the power of the delineation 
of the character of persons, or, in other words, to measure the 
mind or soul of man. For this gift, the organ of Calculation 
predominates, from which the power to individualize and meas- 
ure character emanates, thus giving the faculty to measure the 
minds of persons. As it requires wisdom to do this, the Right 
Intuition must be large ; Comparison next, and also Hope. It 
will be seen that these organs, by referring to the Chart com- 
bined, are of such a nature as to give one power to tell the 
character of man, because Individuality gives power to imitate, 
and Intuition power to receive, the information necessary for 
the purpose, Comparison to classify it, and Hope to see the 
future character. 

All these organs of the Inward Demonstrations, the influ- 



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enec of the Spirit passes within the organs, and flows out 
thence, to produce the manifestations and to impart the wisdom 
received through them. This will answer the question* that 
may be asked, Why are they classed as the Inward Demon- 
strations ? 

The next being the Onward Demonstrations, it may be well 
to state here why they are classed so. Because they are all of 
that kind which 'may be improved and cultivated more rapidly 
than the others, and thus they are called the Onward* For in- 
stance, every one having a gift for music or poetry or mechan- 
ism can improve them by seeking to do so. 

Then, first, the Musical Gift. For this Veneration predom- 
inates, because music requires harmony, and that is one of God's 
highest laws, and thus it needs influence from Him, and it be- 
ing a phase of worshi]} of God, it naturally draws influence 
from Him who is all harmony. The organ of Tune being 
next prominent gives melody and a faculty to impart -it to make 
the music that with Time, which is next prominent, and which 
gives a faculty to measure it. 

The Poetical Gift. For this, the Right Intuition is large, 
which gives the power to attract the wisdom it may contain. 
The organ of Order is also large, from which the power of sys- 
tem in it, and concentration of thoughts and harmony, are 
derived. Veneration is next, and large, which gives it its 
beauty, sublimity, and its attractive charms. 

The Mechanical Gift. For this gift the organ of Con- 
structively ess predominates, from which the power of inventing 
and ingenuity to build is derived. Causality is next prominent, 
from which the power of judging of the beauty in nature and 
art is derived, and Form being large, and next prominent, gives 
the power of concentration, which is necessary to combine the 
thoughts and bring them into the juxtaposition to each other 
necessary to invent things of art. 

The Developing Gift. For this gift the organ of Venera- 
tion predominates, because it requires an influence as directly 
from God as may be, for the reason that the operation of this 
power is the throwing of influence from the Holy Spirit on to 
others, to develop them, and for such a purpose the more pure 
the influence the stronger will be the effect, and those who 
have the largest Veneration have the purest influence, and 
most directly from God; thus it has the most developing 
power, and consequently when Veneration predominates, and 
Causality and Order is next prominent (and which is the case 
in this gift), the person possessing them has power to throw so 
strong an influence upon persons having spiritual gifts, it has a 
powerful influence upon those who are not developed. From 
Causality is derived the power to infuse knowledge and wisdom 



Development of the Human Family. 21 

into the element used in developing these gifts. Order carries 
harmony with it; hence, grace, wisdom, and harmony are the 
great qualifications for a developing gift. 

The Moving Gift. This is one that has an onward and 
progressive movement; and a person possessing it exerts an in- 
fluence upon others, to improve their conditions; that is the nat- 
ural tendency of it. For it the organ of Constructiveness 
predominates, which gives the power to make improvements, 
and consequently a progressive faculty, and hence a desire to 
be moving onwards in the path of progressive develop- 
ment. The Right Intuition is large, which being the recep- 
tivity of wisdom, it supplies progressive minds w T ith wisdom 
that stimulates them to keep moving in the direction to acquire 
more and more. Benevolence being next prominent, gives a 
desire to have all others moving in the same direction. Hence, 
the main tendency of this gift is the principle of moving the 
whole family of man onward towards a pure and harmonious 
condition. 

The Pictorial Gift. For this the organ of Order predom- 
inates, from which is derived the power of imitation necessary to 
draw likenesses, which is the only office of this kind of medium. 
Veneration is next prominent, and this draws influence more 
directly from the Author of nature and all things, and hence 
gives power to imitate nature's works. Conscientiousness is 
next prominent, from which the power to give beauty and sub- 
limity to the drawings made by this gift is derived, because 
there is beauty in a noble character. 

The next are the Upward Demonstrations. The manifesta- 
tions which are made through these gifts are all produced by 
the spiritual influence coming from above, and thrown directly 
upon the spiritual organs, which are upon the uppermost part 
of the organization, penetrating it and producing the kind of 
manifestations corresponding with the general form of that 
organization. As they differ in persons, consequently they 
have different gifts, thence showing why there are six different 
kinds of them when the influence comes from the same source. 
This will be made more plain as each one is explained separ- 
ately, and the organs that are most prominent to constitute 
each gift is given and elucidated. 

Then, first in order is the Clairvoyant. This gift has three 
grand divisions, as follows : First, The independent clairvoyant 
is a kind that when the person is in the spirit condition, the 
knowledge, or wisdom, received through one fully developed 
comes independent of the mind of the medium, and the spirit 
of the medium can rove in the spirit world, and collect knowl- 
edge and wisdom for itself in an independent manner, but can 
only get a grade of it in purity, in accordance with their spirit- 

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ualized and harmonious condition. For ibis phase of the Clair- 
voyant Gift the Left Intuition is large, from which the spiritual 
power is derived, because it requires much and great influence 
to put a person into an independent spiritual state. Conscien- 
eiousness is next prominent in this gift, because it gives one a 
good feeling to do right with his fellow-man ; and if persons have 
that feeling they have it towards their God; hence they are per- 
mitted by Him to rove in the spirit world wherever their affin- 
ities will permit them to go. The organ of Calculation is next 
prominent in this gift, from which the power to collect the know- 
ledge and wisdom that is found in the world of spirits, and to 
arrange it into an intellectual form, is derived ; hence the inde- 
pendent clairvoyant is capable of getting much and valuable 
knowledge in the sj)irit land, and bring it back to the inhabitants 
of earth. 

The next branch in order of the Clairvoyant is the Natural. 
This kind of mediumship is the discerner of spirits. When one 
having this gift is well developed they will be possessed of 
spiritual sight so they can see spirits at all times, and may con- 
verse with them at any time — that is, those who have a certain 
organization, which will be more fully explained. For this phase 
of the Clairvoyant Gift, the organ of Veneration predominates, 
because it is one of the most natural ones, and hence the influ- 
ence comes more directly from God, who is the Author of all 
nature, of all light, and of all sight, both material and spiritual, 
and thus Veneration, being the j)reponderating spiritual organ, 
it gives the power to obtain a spiritual sight. The organ of 
Benevolence is next prominent for this branch of the Clairvoyant 
Gift, because God is the Father to the poor and the afflicted ; 
and if persons have this good trait of the character of God they 
receive an influence of grace from Him, and are permitted by His 
goodness to take upon them the spiritual sight. Amativeness 
is next prominent in this connection, because it is the most 
natural propensity of the Domestic Department, and partakes so 
the principle of affinity, which is one of the natural attributes 
of God — that is, that one of the laws of Nature is affinity, and 
that all true love of one sex for the other results from this law, 
because affinity seeks affinity, and those who have the most 
spiritual development will attract the purest and most natural 
affinity, and mankind being of two sexes, when they have a 
God -like or heavenly development, they will have a stronger 
love for each other, and love is the attraction of affinity ; hence, 
Amativeness being a propensity of love of the sexes attracted 
by affinity, which is a natural principle of God, the natural clair- 
voyant draws an influence, by the aid of that propensity, from 
the natural fountain from which the spiritual sight is received. 
Some of this kind of mediums have the power of spiritual 



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hearing, and for this faculty the organ of Affinity must be 
next prominent, which attracts aid from the opposite sex to 
draw influence from the fountain of the social sphere, and 
hence open the spiritual hearing of the medium to enjoy socia- 
bility by words ; that is, affinity attracts one of like affinity of 
the opposite sex, which increases the social feelings, and hence 
the combined seeking of the two attracts an influence from the 
social fountain of God, sufficient to supply their desire for socia- 
bility, and thus open the spiritual ears. 

The Common Clairvoyant differs from the other branches 
of this gift in these particulars: 1. There are many more of 
them — so many that they are quite common, and that is why 
the author calls them so; 2. They have not got the inde- 
pendent powers to go into the spirit world, and obtain know- 
ledge for themselves; and, 3. They have not the discerning 
powers to see spirits in the normal condition, but they can 
see them with less clearness than the natural clairvoyant 
when in the spirit state, and in that condition the spirits can 
influence them to speak and write and make some other 
manifestations. The main difference from the other branches 
is in the organization of the persons. For this, the organ 
of Benevolence predominates, because that is the second spir- 
itual power — to love God is first, and love thy neighbor 
is next; therefore, this being secondary to the the Natural 
Clairvoyant, and since Veneration predominates for that, and 
Benevolence is love for thy neighbor, it is consequently the 
predominating organ for this class of clairvoyants, which is 
secondary to the Natural. The organ of Order is next pro- 
minent for this gift, because harmony is nature's first law; 
and as the manifestations through this gift are so various, 
they require some power to keep them in order. The next 
organ that is prominent for this gift is Destructiveness, be- 
cause it requires a certain degree of force and psychological 
power to make the manifestations, for the reason the spiritual 
organs are not generally large enough without, with this 
kind of mediums. • 

The next in order is the Impressional Gift, for which the 
Right Receptivity must be large. By the power of this gift, 
the highest grade of wisdom that can be given to man is 
received and imparted; therefore the spirits, by the impres- 
sional operation, can, by their magnetic power, impress the 
medium with the knowledge and wisdom through the natural 
organ for its reception ; and that must predominate to give 
persons this gift. The wisdom imparted by this gift is more 
purely inspiration than is received through any other one. 
Veneration is next prominent for this gift, because it derives 
influence more direct from God than any other; and hence 



24 Development of the Human Family. 

more wisdom, which is from Him. Hope is next prominent 
in this gift, because it gives the medium power to anticipate 
the future wisdom age, when all will become wise, by which 
means the faculties tor learning wisdom are increased in de- 
velopment, because the desire to arrive at that fountain of 
wisdom in the future is made stronger; hence, the power of 
receiving and imparting wisdom is strengthened by the organ 
of Hope. 

The next in order is the Clarative Gift. This partakes 
of the nature of the clairvoyant, becanse the medium, when 
in the spirit state, has a spiritual sight, and can look back 
into the past and see what has occurred (and in this way 
see the past acts of persons), so as to describe them, and 
can also look forward and see things that are to come to 
pass. It was by the aid of this gift Daniel w r as enabled to 
interpret the handwriting on the wall, and Joseph, Pharaoh's 
dream, because he could, when in the clarative condition, see 
to a certain extent, into the future — - that is w r hen he was 
seeking to do it in the right way; that would be when he 
sought for a purpose that would advance the spiritual con- 
dition of God's chosen people — that is, the most spiritual- 
minded — or to improve the spiritual development of any 
person or persons. But as Joseph did not understand the 
nature of his powers, it is probable he did but seldom seek 
for an influence from God to put him into a condition to see 
into the future ; hence there is but little account of his clarative 
powers. And Daniel was enabled by this power to look back; 
thus he saw the king's past acts, and that they had been bad, 
and saw he had been weighed in the balance and was found 
wanting, and that his kingdom was to be destroyed in conse- 
quence of it. For this gift Veneration predominates, and the 
reason w 7 hy is the same as has been given for the Natural Clair- 
voyant powers ; and Hope is next prominent, because it gives 
the power to look forward, as it has a bearing on the future, 
but with certain conditions its powers may aid others to look 
back into the past — to wit, the organ of Form is next pro- 
minent, and that of Time next ; therefore, by the aid of the 
power of these, which is to recognize the configuration of 
things at a distance, and out of the natural sight, and a me- 
mory of the past, the medium has power to look back when 
in the Clarative condition. 

The next in order is the Tipping Gift. For this Locality 
predominates, because it is confined to particular localities, 
and that is when there is a large quantity of electricity, be- 
cause it is with the application of it that the tipping is per- 
formed, and it requires more than it does for some other 
manifestations. Form is next prominent for this gift, because 



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It gives the medium power to form a battery with the elec- 
tricity. And the Left Intuition is large, which receives the 
influence and power that does the tipping. 

The next in order is the Raising Gift. For this, the 
organ of Constructiveness predominates, because the power 
that performs the raising of things is a combination of ma- 
chinery made by the spirits that can he used for the purpose 
where there is a medium with the mechanical powers suffi- 
ciently strong to do so; hence Constructiveness being as 
mechanical power it forms a basis to erect the machinery 
with. Firmness is next prominent for this gift because it re- 
quires great decision of mind and fixedness of purpose to aid 
the power of the spirits to erect so powerful a machinery as it 
requires for the manifestation of raising things of the magni- 
tude that can he raised through this kind of medium. The Left 
Intuition must be large for this gift, because it requires great 
spiritual power to produce the raising manifestation. And 
Veneration is next prominent because all power is from God, 
and the larger this organ the more power may be received 
from him when seeking for it. 

The 'Vibratory or Rapping Gift is next in order, and the 
last of the whole number of the twenty-four as classified by the 
author. For this gift the organ of Form predominates, be- 
cause the spirits have to form a battery to make the raps or 
vibrations with, and it is not made by any particular rule but 
by the recollection of the shape of it, as a blacksmith hammers 
out a piece of iron the shape he wants it — in order to do that, 
well, he needs a good organ of Form. But all who have that 
are not rapping mediums, unless they have certain other organs 
large also ; and one of them is Firmness, which is next pro- 
minent for this kind of manifestations, because it requires 
decision of mind to strengthen the judgment, which is neces- 
sary to form a battery. Self- esteem is next prominent for this 
gift, because from it the propensity of Cautiousness is derived, 
and that has the effect to strengthen the stability of the mind, 
and hence the faculty to form the battery that is necessary to 
make the raps. 

Now, in giving this explanation of the predominating 
organs to each gift it is only to show something of the nature 
of the gifts, and show why one person has one and another 
some other kind of these gifts, and only those organs have 
been stated that are most prominent for the gift that predo- 
minates in the person, and only three or four of those organs 
have been given, because, as has been said, it is so complicated 
in its very nature it will take more matter to explain it all than 
is intended for this book. There are twenty-four organs, of 
which the writer could explain their relative bearing, or in- 



26 Development of the Human Family. 

flnenee, upon each gift, and classify them in order as connected 
with each gift; but as he considers that those he has elucidated 
will give the reader a sufficient idea of the great magnitude, 
beauty, and sublimity of this, the most important subject and 
science that was ever presented to man, and enough to induce 
him to investigate it for him or herself. 

Altogether, under the present uncultivated and undevel- 
oped condition of the human family, this is the most com- 
plicated and diversified science that comes within the province 
of Nature's laws; and well it may be said, "great is the 
mystery of Godliness," because great has been the mystery 
of this science, of which the philosophy emanating from it 
has been understood, but the science has not. Let us look 
a little farther into its operations, and see its complexity. 
Many of these persons who have spiritual gifts, not only 
have one of them, but many have strong powers of others, 
although one predominates. The writer has seen those who 
had powers and phases of as many as five or six of them. 
To illustrate: he knows a person whose Natural Clairvoyant 
powers predominate, and yet the raps are made through that 
person in a plain and distinct manner, communications rapped 
out, and writing and speaking done by the spirits, through 
the same one. These powers are in addition to the one 
that predominates, because certain other organs are large. 
The writer has seen persons who have strong powers of as 
many as five or six gifts, such as the Rapping, Writing, 
Speaking, Psychologic, Tipping, and Musical. To constitute 
these powers, there must be certain organs prominent for 
each, and different ones. To go through and explain each 
one and the bearing it has towards giving the medium those 
different powers, it requires much labor, in consequence of 
its great diversity and complexity; and perhaps it is not 
necessary, because every intelligent person will 'see that 
enough has already been said here to learn them the rudi- 
ments of this science, and that they will only need investi- 
gation and personal study to gain the knowledge of it, 
because one might as well undertake to teach the science of 
Chemistry or Botany, by writing it, and it is well known that 
that would be almost impossible, and therefore persons have 
to study it for themselves, to learn it. Hence it becomes 
incumbent on all persons to work and learn for themselves, 
and as God has arranged it for them to do. Because He has 
so made things, it becomes necessary for man to cultivate 
them for his use. He has not made our implements of hus- 
bandry, &c, but has only given us the materials to make 
them of in the crude state. So it is with the food we eat ; 
the seed He has given us, and we have to cultivate it for 



Development of the Human Family. 27 

ourselves. So it is with the arts and sciences; we are not 
born with the knowledge of them, but have to learn them 
for ourselves. And the same is true with this, the Science 
of all Sciences. We have got to learn it by actual labor ; 
and if all who have these gifts will only commence to learn 
it, and apply them in the right direction, the condition of 
the people would be improved, some thirty, some sixty, and 
some an hundred fold, before this generation passes away ; 
because about one -half of them have these gifts that can be 
developed to be useful in cultivating and elevating the world 
of mankind, when a large proportion of their talents are 
buried beneath rubbish and corruption that is choking them 
so they can not grow, but are decreasing to a great degree. 
It is only necessary for this Science to be understood, to 
induce all persons to seek to raise themselves to a higher 
plain of intellect and religious purity, and for heavenly 
wisdom. Surely the harvest is ripe, but the reapers are few; 
that is, the field for investigation and improvement is now 
open, and • but few persons are prepared to improve the 
opportunity to do so, because of the great distance they 
have alienated from the religious and Godly principles. The 
reason of this alienation is because this, God's true Science 
of Development, has not been understood. 

But as it has now been discovered there is such a science, 
and the modus operandi of the operation of its development 
has also been discovered, it will be like putting leaven in a 
measure of meal that remained there until the whole was 
leavened. It must, and will, enlighten mankind in all the 
branches of science, because there is but one science, and 
all others that are called sciences are but branches of that 
one; and that is this, the Science of Progressive Develop- 
ment of the Human Family ; which will be more fully 
explained hereafter. 

Now, the operation and process of the development of 
this Science, was what Ezekiel saw in his vision. He saw 
one wheel upon the earth by the living creature with his 
four faces, representing Man with his four departments of 
his nature — his Spiritual, Intellectual, Domestic, and Selfish. 
Man being made after the image of God, the departments 
of his nature had the appearance of a wheel; and Ezekiel 
saw the influence of God's spirit descending upon man, when 
he was in the attitude of seeking and asking for it, to bless 
him and give him wisdom. And the work of God, when 
thus by His science of educating man in wisdom and har- 
mony ; and the work of man, when thus seeking by his 
science of obtaining wisdom and harmony from God, the 
two sciences thus being worked in concert in their mission 



*2S Development of the .Human Faintly. 

and purpose of teaching man intellectuality, morality, and 
spirituality, and preparing him for a higher, more elevated, 
and more pure condition, and fitting him to enjoy a Jieav- 
enlv abode among the angels of God, was represented to 
Ezekiel in its work as a wheel in the middle of a wheel, 
which really was God's Science and Man's Science of Devel- 
opment of the Human Mind actually in their united work 
for that purpose. And the work was God influencing man 
to develop him when man is asking for it, because God's- 
Science has ( always been harmoniously developed; and when 
Man's is finally so developed, then he will be brought back 
to God, and in affinity with Him. This was what Ezekiel 
saw, — God in His work of developing man to a plain where 
He could teach him knowledge and wisdom, and consequently 
to an independent condition, where he can seek and find 
wisdom for himself from the natural element from whence 
he derived his instinctive power, because that power, to all 
appearance, is a natural one, and the wisdom obtained is 
the result of cultivation of the mind. Hence, when he be- 
comes to a certain extent spiritualized, his spirit can glide 
into that element to the wisdom spheres, and explore them 
and read wisdom from the very depths of nature herself. 
But in order to spiritualize man to that extent, it requires 
the united work of God, by his angels and man, and the 
love that God has for all mankind is sure, in accordance with 
His promise that he will assist those who will ask of Him 
in the right way to do so, when man is thus seeking and 
asking aid of Him. 

The rings that were shown to Ezekiel, which appeared 
to him so high, was the influence of the Holy Spirit descend- 
ing upon man when in a condition to receive it, and thus spir- 
itualize him, that he might learn wisdom through the nat- 
ural channel of obtaining it. And he saw the spirit of God 
acting on the spirit of man ; for the spirit of the living crea- 
ture was in the wheels. The wings shown to him were the 
representation of the four departments of the organs of the 
body, because those of the head extend to the body; as he 
saw each creature had four wings, two of which covered on 
this side, and two of which covered on that side their bodies, 
and those organs of the body correspond with those of the 
head in their office of development. 

This great work, which was shown to Ezekiel, was that 
of the Author of all things, and whose ultimate work of 
creation was that of man, and which ultimate of his destiny 
will be the noblest of all His works and His labor to culti- 
vate and develop man to that ultimate that he may become 
perfect as God is perfect Himself, is the most glorious work 



Development of the Human Family. 29 

of God. This work being shown to Ezekiel in his vision, 
the great sublimity of its glorious scene was presented to 
him as the color of a beryl and a crystal, and the likeness 
of a firmament, and as having the noise of great waters, as 
the voice of the Almighty, the voice of the speech, as the 
noise of a host, and the likeness of a throne as the appear- 
ance of sapphire stone, and brightness round about, &c, and 
the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. 
All these representations were to show the magnitude of the 
beauty, the grandeur, the magnificence, and sublimity of the 
great work of the Creator of all things, in developing and 
cultivating the noblest creation of His hands, which surely 
is His highest glory, and which was shown to Ezekiel, whilst 
He was thus at this great work, as the glory of the Lord. 
And, Reader, what can be more glorious than the work of 
Him who made the heavens for a happy and eternal abode 
of numberless of intelligent beings, in cultivating and pre- 
paring them for the highest enjoyment of that habitation, in 
a house not made with hands, but eternal in the Heavens, 
there to sing praises to God and the Lamb for ever. 

The voice that Ezekiel heard, that spake, was the voice 
of the Angel of the Lord, and represented the voice of Nature 
herself expressing her delight to see the great and noble 
Work of reform and spiritual development of the intelligent 
family progressing by the work of her God. 

This explanation of EzekiePs vision may seem to some 
to be imagination, or a theory without proof to support it. 
That may be so; but the manifestations we get by means 
of these spiritual gifts present sufficient facts to substantiate 
the theory to be in its main features correct and truthful; 
and from the writer's experience and observations in investi- 
gating the whole subject, he is fully convinced of its truth- 
fulness. 

The writer will now enter into an elucidation of the 
application of this Science to the development of persons, 
and its relation to its branches. 

In the sixth chapter of Matthew, and thirty -third verse, 
you will find these words, spoken by Christ himself: " But 
seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness ; 
and all these things shall be added unto you." These words 
have a wide -spread meaning, and apply particularly to the 
results of the development of this Science. Because if persons 
have these gifts to increase their usefulness, they must seek 
to cultivate their spiritual organs in a way to increase in 
righteousness, and the more they do, the more they will 
develop all of their good faculties, and those which are most 
useful to them in all departments of the duties necessary to 



30 A rclopmcnt of the Human Family. 

be performed to make them comfortable, righteous, and 
happy, in all the relations of this life and that to come*. 
That is, if persons have got the spiritual Gift of SpeaTking, 
the way to cultivate it, is to seek for influence from the 
Holy Spirit, and for its righteousness; and by doing so they 
will not only increase that gift, but all the faculties of their 
nature, some an hundred fold, some sixty, and some thirty, 
in accordance with the prominency of their phrenological 
organs; and the same will apply to all the spiritual gifts. 

Reader, the way to learn whether you have such a gift 
or not, is to seek, with sincere desire and honest heart, an 
influence from Heaven, through the pure angels of God, and 
they will demonstrate it to you. If you have a mechanical 
arid inventive one, your powers may be increased, by thus 
seeking, to an extent that would be astonishing beyond 
measure. It can not be imagined how much talent lies 
buried beneath the rubbish of undevelopment, and useless to 
the world, that can be cultivated and released from confine- 
ment, and jmade useful to man in all his occupations, by 
thus seeking for aid from the spirit world. Persons, almost ' 
too numerous to number, have poetical faculties, that now 
slumber, that could be brought out in this way, so there 
may be made almost any number of Lord Byrons and Poes* 

But it is unnecessary to particularize on the improvement 
that can be made by this mode of cultivation of each gift, 
because what applies to one does to all. And by this mode 
of cultivation of mankind, the millenium condition will be 
brought about, when men will become perfect, because thk 
is the harmonial science, and the knowledge of it, once pnK 
mulgated, will produce a harmonious condition of man, when 
all will have spiritual gifts, and will covet good ones, and 
know how to obtain them. Hence all will seek the king- 
dom of God and his righteousness, and thus receive wisdom 
and influence from Him who will give them a Godly devel- 
opment, thus fulfilling the prophecies of the prophets of old,, 
who foretold that all should know the Lord from the least 
to the greatest; when the things seen by St. John, recorded 
in the 21st chapter of Revelations, will be consummated* 
But these things can not be this generation, because the organ- 
ization of those now living can not be developed to that 
condition necessary to produce it, but it will be brought 
about in this wise : This Science will begin to be understood 
in this generation, so much so that very many will begin 
to seek its benefits and become more wise and spiritual £ 
hence the next generation will inherit its benefits, and con- 
sequently will be more spiritual, and the next generation 
after will be still more so, and so on until that condition is 



Development of the Human Family, 31 

arrived at, thus solving the mystery how the millenium is 
to be produced. Of the truth of this theory there is no 
more doubt than that there is a science of any kind; the 
facts to substantiate it have been plainly demonstrated in the 
experience of the writer. Hence, the Rubicon is passed, 
because more than one half the work is done towards devel- 
oping mankind to a harmonious condition, because the found- 
ation that has been laid by the promulgation of religious 
philosophy, in all ages of the world, has so prepared the 
human mind that the knowledge of its science, of which the 
principles are already known, will be learned in a compara- 
tively short time, and the cry will go forth, "Repent ye, 
for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand." 

The branches of this Science are those that are now called 
sciences ; for instance, that of Chemistry can not be learned 
without a spiritual aid, and any person having a prominent 
organ of Causality, which is the leading faculty necessary to 
learn science, and also spiritual ones, by seeking with an honest 
and sincere heart aid from God, through his angels, and thus 
obtain spiritual development, can learn that branch of science, 
in proportion to their spiritual condition thus obtained. The 
same thing applies to all branches of science. In order to learn 
them right and well, you must first seek the kingdom of God 
and his righteousness, and in no other way can they be learned 
to perfection, only by the aid of this spiritual Science, as the 
mother of all science. Hence, it is a plain fact that the theory 
here assumed, that there is no other science but this spiritual 
one, and all others that are called so are only branches of it, 
therefore it is plain truth that to develop mankind towards the 
millenium state, and finally to perfection, this Science must be 
first learned, and its principles and philosophy practiced. 

The truth of this Science of Development may be tested 
and proved, perhaps, more readily by the Musical Gift than any 
other; because that is one that is more separate from the 
others, and is now more developed than any other ; and to he 
that hath shall more be given ; that is, those that have talents 
can more easily get more. Music is a heavenly worship of 
angels as well as one of men, and it has a tendency to harmonize 
the mind, and thus cultivate harmony, which is Nature's first 
law. It is also a faculty that its improvement would be more 
readily noticed and experienced, and have a tendency to lead 
the mind more towards heavenly and divine things. Hence, if 
those who have this gift will seek and ask for influence from 
God to assist them in developing it with pure and holy aspira- 
tions they can improve it some thirty, some sixty, some a hun- 
dred, and perhaps some five hundred fold. What a sublime 
and beautiful truth ! Reader, you who have a desire to improve 



33 Development of the Human Family. 

your musical faculty, do not foil to try the experiment, and see 
how scon you will be rewarded for it. Oh, how much the^ wor- 
ship ol* God could be improved and elevated, if those who sing 
and play music at altars of worship would but take this method 
to improve their musical faculties! And, oh, how soon it would 
establish the truth of this Science in all its departments, and 
show what the writer has said on it is but the key to its great 
and important truth, and thus give a new impulse to all the 
improvements of man and the world, and hasten on that time 
when there shall be no more wars, or rumors of wars, but all 
shall be peace and harmony, and all shall worship God. Teachers 
of music, and those who sing in choirs, by all means, try it, 
especially those who have not done so, and do not resist the 
influence of angels to assist you to make angelic music. By 
this mode many may become Thalbergs and Jenny Linds. 

It may be asked how the writer has obtained his knowledge 
of this Science 1 , and what is the great discovery he claims, more 
than has been already discovered. The knowledge has been 
received mostly by the power of Intuition, which he has very 
large, particularly the right division of it, which is the recep- 
tivity of knowledge, and that his Philoprogenitiveness is next 
prominent ; which derives its qualification from that of human 
nature, and this gives the knowledge thus received the direc- 
tion to learn human nature ; and the power of Concentrative- 
ness, being next prominent, deriving its power from the faculty 
of Order, which is prominent, together with certain other 
organs that are in harmony with them, to such an extent that 
they give him power to get knowledge of things appertaining to 
this Science. The writer might give his organization in full, 
but does not think it best to do so now, and therefore he has 
only given enough for his purpose here. By this power of 
Intuition he has the faculty to look into the past, and see and 
trace the progress of the promulgation and dissemination of the 
principles and philosophy of religion, or Spiritualism, which is 
one and the same thing, and by the aid of these powers he has 
made this discovery. In looking back, and tracing up its prog- 
ress from the depths of antiquity, it creates a mystery and won- 
der that the philosophy of a science should so long be known 
and taught for so many centuries by so many seers, sages, theo- 
logians, and philosophers, in so high a degree of sublimity and 
perfection, without the science of it ever being discovered; but 
such has been the case with this Science, as will be here shown 
and proved, as follows : 

The most ancient philosophers taught the philosophy of 
religion, and one of them was Confucius, who taught some of 
the principles of the Golden Rule, which was so emphatically 
preached by Christ many centuries afterwards ; and by that 



Development of the Human Family. 33 

philosophy which was given through Confucius by inspiration, 
he built up a denomination which has existed as such to this 
day. In that time the people had but little development ; they 
were, to a great extent, under the power of instinct, which is 
an undeveloped natural and spiritual state. But in that time, 
as in all other ages of the world, there was an unequal cultivation 
and development of man. There were philosophers, statesmen, 
and scientific men, and a middle class, and what was called the 
lowest class. The greatest among the first was Confucius, who 
had spiritual gifts that gave him the power of inspiration ; and 
the character of it was in accordance with his organization, and 
that agreed with the age he lived. By this power he wrote a 
philosophy of religion, and upon it he established a denomina- 
tion that has been perpetuated until this day, and the worship- 
ers of it ever since have been of a similar type to him ; that is, 
not only the particular style of philosophy, but their organiza- 
tions have also taken after his so much that they never have 
improved the philosophy he taught ; they are therefore but a lit- 
tle more advanced in progression than their antiquarian ancestors. 
This is because they have never had a knowledge of the Sci- 
ence which is the mother of that philosophy. The spiritual gifts 
of Confucius differed from other philosophers because his organ- 
ization was different, and it being as one that gave him far 
greater power of inspiration, was able to establish a religion for 
his people, which has piloted them and their posterity through 
the dark ages that have been since, and until now, when the 
rays of light just begin to gleam up through the darkness that 
surrounds the world, which will soon become visible to them. 

The predominating gift of Confucius was the Impressional. 
He also had the Speaking, Psychologic, Poetical, Mechanical, 
and Raising spiritual powers. To constitute these powers, 
certain organs were prominent. First, his Intuition predomi- 
nated, and the right division was the most prominent, which 
gave the wisdom that was in his philosophy. The next was 
Veneration, by which means that wisdom received by him, was 
a pure and heavenly kind, and this carried with it a holy influ- 
ence of a character much more pure than they had before expe- 
rienced, so their natural religious nature was brought into 
action, and consequently the formation of a religious sect. 

For his Speaking power, Language was large. For Psy- 
chologic, the organ of Destructiveness, which gave force and put 
in action the spiritual power received through his left division 
of Intuition, and enabled him to throw an influence over an 
audience that had an effect to make them believe him. For 
Poetical Gift, Imitation was large ; and for Mechanical, Con- 
structiveness was large. He had large spiritual faculties, and 
development, and had a corresponding development of intek 
lect, and a right domestic one. 



34 Development of the Human Family. 

He Blight have been impressed with the science as well 
as the philosophy of religion; but he lacked Order, Calcula- 
tion, and Causality; and without these being large, no one 
can be proficient in science. The organization he had gave 
a like character to his philosophy and to his people, which 
has only been improved with the natural progression of the 
world of matter, because they have had no newer and higher 
phase of philosophy taught to them. 

The truth of this theory is apparent when we come to 
follow up the progression of others who have had a higher 
phase of philosophy taught them. Thus, take that of the 
Bible, of which Moses was the first who was inspired to 
write, and the character of his writings was in accordance 
with his organization, which was of that nature it corres- 
ponded with the development of the age in which he lived; 
that is, the condition of mankind was such at that time that 
no better or harmonious organization could be found than 
that of Moses, hence no higher grade of the philosophy of 
religion could be taught to the people than what was given 
through Moses. That being peculiarly stereotyped after his 
organization, and consequently that same philosophy gave 
character to the religion of the descendants of Jacob, until 
the expiration of the Mosaic dispensation, and the commence- 
ment of the Christian dispensation. But even that new re- 
ligion and more mild philosophy did not entirely do away 
with it, because some of the descendants of Moses hold on 
to it yet, and reject the new, which was taught by Christ. 
Hence the organizations of those who have done so, partake 
of the particular type of Moses, and, of a consequence, are 
but a little changed from those living in his era; and what 
little they have, has been produced by the circumstances 
thrown around them by the influence arising from the Chris- 
tian dispensation. 

Moses' predominating Spiritual Gift was the Impressional, 
which gave him power of inspiration ; and he had strong 
powers of the Clarative, by which means he could look back 
into the past, and thus see, as it were, the commencement 
of creation ; and by his impressional power he was impressed 
to write an account of it, in its proper language. He also 
had large Psycological, Mechanical, and Vibratory Gifts, 
by which the rod was made into a serpent, and all his other 
wonders were performed. His Combativeness predominated, 
and Veneration next, which gave him confidence and courage, 
and a spiritual power of the resisting phase; but he had 
Firmness enough to keep it within the bounds of reason. 
Altogether, he had very strong spiritual powers, which appear 
to have been well adapted to the age in which he lived, 



Development of the Human Family. 35 

•especially for the purpose of delivering the children of Israel 
from their bondage, which was principally done by means of 
those powers, and to which a large part of the Christian na- 
tions, in all human probability, owe their present existence ; 
because if they had not been brought out of Egypt, the 
great spiritual powers they possessed would never have been 
developed in their posterity to that degree required to pro- 
duce the Virgin Mary, hence the coming of Christ would 
not have taken place when it did, and the world might have 
been without the Christian dispensation to this day. But, thank 
the Lord ! a Moses was raised up to prevent so great a blessing 
being lost to the world ; and by the coming of Christ a new 
and perfect religious philosophy was given to the world by 
his teachings, and the peculiar type or character of it has 
been stereotyped more or less in his followers. 

Christ had all the Spiritual Gifts combined ; hence, in him 
dwelt the fullness of the Godhead, bodily. And as he said, 
"I and my Father are one," meaning that they were one in 
spiritual attributes — that is, any manifestation performed by 
<*od, if done by Christ, would be done by the same power 
as that of God ; if he performed a miracle of any kind, he 
would do it with the same power that God would; but not 
that he could do all his Father could, because he says, at 
another time, "I go to my Father who is greater than I" — 
which, explained, means that Christ had all the spiritual 
gifts of God, and thus the same kind of powers, but not so 
strong, because God had unlimited power, and Christ only 
in proportion to his organic structure; hence he and his 
Father were one in spiritual principles, but not one in strength 
of spiritual powers. This plainly shows the character and 
personage of Christ, that he was God in the sense he said 
himself, which was, "I am the vine, and my Father is the 
husbandman," to be found in the 15th chapter of St. Luke, 
which was said to his members; and further he said, u As 
the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you." 

It is not the writer's intention to multiply words to show 
the personage of Christ, because he has said enough already 
to convince every intelligent mind of the fact he has stated, 
but to repeat it, lest it should not be understood. Christ 
possessed all the Spiritual Gifts of God, which endowed him 
with all His spiritual principles, and that Christ had power 
to impart those spiritual principles to the extent of his power, 
and, in that sense, he was God; but that Christ only had 
spiritual power in proportion to his organic structure, and 
God having unlimited power, in that sense the Father was 
greater than Christ. 

This fully explains why he called himself and his Father 



3b* Development of the Human Family. 

one, and at other times representing his Father to be greater 
than himself; and also calling himself the son of God. andt 
the only son of God, which was also a plain truth, when, 
explained, lie was the only one that ever dwelt in the. 
flesh, that had all these spiritual gifts; hence, he was the 
only true son of God, and the only one that ever could be 
called God, living in an earthly form; and thus he was truly 
the only son of God. Therefore, the religious philosophy he 
taught was perfect, to all intents and purposes. It has been, 
the means of handing down the true spiritual principles 
through succeeding generations until the present time, which, 
has been done upon the principle of inheritance — that is, 
persons having the blessing of spiritual gifts would extend; 
that blessing to their posterity, even to the third or fourth 
generations, more or less, according to atmospherical changes 
and conditions, which is the reason that persons are not 
alike — that brothers and sisters are not just alike in form 
and intellectual attainments. But as salt will only lose its 
savor so will children lose the gifts of their fathers. As the 
salt is mixed with other ingredients, and: its savor absorbed 
in them, it becomes less; so posterity will lose the gifts of 
their fathers only as they become mixed in succeeding gen- 
erations. Thus, if a father and mother have spiritual gifts, 
their children will surely have them of some kind, but may 
not be the same kind; yet they are more likely to have 
those that are similar than otherwise, but will not be lost to 
them entirely until after the third or fourth generations; and 
then they may be perpetuated in the posterity of succeeding 
generations of other families. Upon this principle of this Sci- 
ence of Development, those spiritual gifts have been handed 
down and perpetuated. 

In this sense did Christ call his disciples the "salt of the 
earth," because through them the religious philosophy he 
taught them would be taught to the people, and written by 
them, and thus the nations of the earth would eventually be 
salted with it. But through all the multiplicity of changes, 
of these gifts in the succeeding generations, from the Chris- 
tian era they remain ever the same in kind, and only vary 
in phase, and that as the organizations of persons change, 
Therefore, the spiritual gifts to-day are the same kind they 
were in the days of St. Paul and of Adam, but differ in 
their operations, because the organizations of those living now 
differ from those of that time ; and that main difference is 
they had then more of the spiritual power and stronger do-* 
mestic propensities, and less intellectual faculties and selfish 
propensities. This the writer could elucidate fully, but as it 
would take many pages to do so as fully as he would wish> 
he will leave it for some future time. 



Development of the Human Family. 37 

But to throw out one hint, he would say that the great 
check to Spiritual Cultivation and Development now, is the 
overgrown, hydra-headed selfishness that pervades, and is 
prominent among all people at the present day. It is what 
Ezekiel called, in the second chapter of his book, a "rebel- 
lious house and a rebellious people." 

The spiritual manifestations now, compared with those in 
the time of the Patriachal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensa- 
tions, prove the great truth of the existence and the immu- 
tability of this Science; that it was instituted by God, in His 
plan of the salvation of man ; that it never has been changed, 
nor ever will be; but that the wheel which belongs to man 
has been separated from 4hat of God's by the acts of man, 
and which is termed the "Fall of Man," and that Fall was 
that he was induced by the influence of an evil spirit to par- 
take of food that caused the development of his intellectual 
nature to the degree that he learned earthly knowledge of 
good and evil. And here the writer approaches another the- 
ory for elucidation — that is, that of the Fall of Man, which 
would also take many pages of matter to do it, and he will 
leave it for some future time. 

Although Christ had a harmonious organization, and taught 
the true religious philosophy, yet he did not teach the religious 
science. Because, as will be found in the 10th chapter of St. 
John, these words— "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that 
entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up 
some other way, the same is a thief and robber," and that he 
is the door, meaning that there is but one way to Heaven, and 
that is by first developing the Spiritual Department of the 
organization, and by that way it can be reached ; but that way 
will require some climbing to effect it, that is, it will take some 
labor to do it. That Jacob's ladder was a true representation 
of the way Heaven must be reached; that is, by a process of 
development that would take one there, step by step, and that 
would require climbing ; he that tried to get to Heaven with- 
out that labor of knocking or seeking the same, was no better 
than a thief or robber. That he was the door because he re- 
presented God, in organization and image ; that all that ever 
come before him, none had ever had such an organization, 
hence they had all been wanting in Spiritual Gifts and Devel- 
opment ; that he was going to lay down his life for the sheep, 
that is, for the people of the world, because it would be neces- 
sary for the purpose of giving a notoriety to his mission, and 
create a sympathy for him that would not die out ; hence the 
principles he taught would, by that means, be perpetuated, 
because so apparently an unjust act would not be forgotten, 
and the history of it being so connected with his teachings of 
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religious principles it would have the effect to keep the salt from 
losing its savor, and that the people of the whole earth would 
eventually be salted with his principles, when they would alPhear 
his voice, and there be but one fold and one shepherd. But 
the people did not understand him, because he did not tell 
them how these things were to be done; that is, the modus 
operandi of the science of doing them. The reason was 
because his Spirit was in the flesh, and therefore the Holy 
Spirit could not teach it through him ; therefore he said, " His 
Father would send the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, 
and he would teach them all things, and bring all to the remem- 
brance whatsoever he had said unto them"; that was, that the 
Holy Spirit would be with the people, to impress them with the 
principles he had taught them, until a more enlightened age of 
the world, when the people would be enough enlightened, to 
understand how these things could be done, to develop the 
people to that condition they would be prepared to learn the 
science of doing them, and that the Comforter could and would 
then teach them all things; and that would be the 'modus oper- 
andi of seeking the Kingdom of God and his righteousness ; so 
when that was obtained, all things could and would be taught 
them by the Holy Ghost, and they would then all be fed and 
clothed with wisdom and righteousness by the Holy Spirit. 

It may seem strange to many that the Holy Spirit could 
not teach all things through Christ. But when such persons 
come to understand the Science of Development of humanity, 
they will at once see how that could be.. Was not Christ, God 
manifested in the flesh ? Was not that flesh, like other human 
flesh, and nourished and sustained by earthly food, before his 
death, similar to that of all human beings ? Was not He once 
a child so small, that little or no intelligence could be given 
through his organization, also like all others? All which is 
true and can not be* disputed; hence, He grew and was developed 
similar to others, and was surrounded by the influences of oth- 
ers, and to a certain extent subject to them; therefore, the 
Holy Spirit could not control his spirit in a manner to teach 
the Science of Development of Man. For the truth of this, it 
is only necessary to take his own words, as follows : St. John, 
Chap. 16th, speaking to his disciples, he says : "I tell you the 
truth ; It is expedient for you that I go away : for if I go not 
away, the Comforter will not come unto you ; but if I depart, 
I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will 
reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment." 
The meaning of this is, that the Comforter is the Holy Spirit ; 
and to reprove the world of sin he must have a spirit that had 
perfect spiritual organs, that was not trammeled by human 
flesh, and to get such a spirit it was necessary to have the 



Development of the Human Family. 39 

spirit of Christ leave the flesh, and then the Holy Spirit would 
have a perfect spirit that had been borne in the flesh, and been 
developed in the flesh; and the only perfect one that ever had 
been so borne and developed was Christ, because the buds of 
his spiritual organs were all perfect when in their germinal state, 
and they grew and became developed to a fully grown and 
unfading blossom of the image of God before it left the flesh. 
Thus he became the mediator between God and Man, because 
the Holy Spirit could, with his spirit, produce a more powerful 
influence upon those having spiritual gifts, and by that means 
persons that had more intellectual development could be con- 
verted to believe in God and his only begotten Son. 

St. Paul was, soon after, miraculously converted by this 
means, which was a great help to the cause of God in carrying 
out his great plan of salvation of man ; and without there had 
been a Christ it would not have been effected, and the inhab- 
itants of the world would have increased in selfishness and 
wickedness, and finally got into that materialistic condition 
they were before the Flood, when they could not be developed 
out of it. Hence, the Comforter would never have come with- 
out the people had all been destroyed again, except some of 
those who had spiritual gifts, as was the case with Noah and 
his sons, and the Holy Spirit would have had to commence 
again with those, in order to have effected the salvation of the 
world by a spiritual development to a harmonious condition. 

But God saw that there would be conditions when persons 
having spiritual gifts would be born and raised up, and that 
his great work of spiritualizing the world through their powers 
would be finally accomplished, and He told Noah He would 
not again curse the ground, for man's sake, nor any more smite 
every living thing as He had done, neither should there any 
more be a flood to destroy the earth ; but why the earth would 
be no more destroyed the Holy Spirit could not tell through 
Noah, because his organization would not admit of it, since his 
organs of Order, Calculation, and Causality were not prominent 
enough ; therefore he had not system enough to learn science. 
Hence he was only told the fact, that the people of the earth 
never would be destroyed again. But could God have told 
him why He would not destroy every living thing again, He 
would have said it was because the angels in heaven had be- 
come so well developed in spiritual powers they would, by the 
assistance of the Holy Spirit, finally succeed in producing a 
spiritual condition with the inhabitants of earth, to a degree 
that a male child would be born that would possess all the 
gifts of God, and that those gifts would be cultivated to a ma- 
ture condition before his spirit left the form, by which means he 
would have power over all spirits in heaven and those on earth 



40 Development of the Human Family. 

who had spiritual gifts to a certain extent, and there would be> 
enough of them whom this spirit could influence to eventually 
spiritualize all the inhabitants of the earth so they woulcb all, 
by his spiritual powers, be saved, and there would be no more 
necessity tor destroying the people because of their wickedness,, 
ungodly and lost condition. And He would also have told 
him how this was to be effected. But for the want of sufficient 
spiritual medium powers in man, he could not. 

This has been the great battle of the Lord — to effect a de- 
velopment in man to a condition that He could teach him the 
Science of his development, so he could understand it. To 
effect this great work, He has had to work by means ; and in 
doing so, He has had to produce famines, plagues, wars and 
rumors of wars, and death, almost without number. 

And first we have of note after the deluge was the Lord 
sent Abraham from Haran to Canaan, a land of promise, with 
the promise of the Lord that he would make him a great 
nation, and bless him and make his name great, and that, 
through him, all the families of the earth would be blessed 
(Gen. 12). Now this was for this reason: because Abraham 
had prophecying spiritual powers; and a prophet is opposed 
in his own country, and in his own household, and he must go 
away from that opposing influence, so he could be more influ- 
enced by the spirit of the Lord to cultivate those powers. 

Again, Sari, his wife, had also spiritual gifts, and she was 
kept barren for the purpose of having them developed to a 
certain degree before slie had a child, so that it would have 
strong spiritual gifts, that might be inherited by his children. 

And, again, Sodom and Gomorrah had to be destroyed, be- 
cause the people had become so material it prevented the spir- 
itual development of man. 

And God, to strengthen Abraham's faith, and to make an 
impression on his son, had to show him a manifestation when 
he told him to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering, and He 
stayed his hand, and produced him a ram for the offering. 

Again ; Joseph had to be sold into Egypt, that he might 
prepare the way for Israel and his posterity to go there to be- 
come a people, and be enslaved, so that their selfish propensi- 
ties would be kept in check, that they might not become too, 
material like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, who had to 
be destroyed for their wickedness. And for the same purpose 
they were kept in the wilderness forty years, and fed on manna 
— spiritual food from heaven — which kept them in a more spir- 
itual condition than earthly food, and also kept them from 
entering into business of trading in earthly goods, and also in a 
condition that they saw spirit manifestations ; but even then, God 
had to send serpents to bite them, to keep them from rebelling 



Development of the Human Family. 41 

against Moses, their spiritual leader. The Lord had to raise up 
Moses — a man with spiritual powers — to bring the children out 
of Egypt, and to effect that it was necessary to impress Pha- 
raoh, the king, to have the male children born of the Israelites 
to be thrown into the river, so the child Moses would be hid 
where the king's daughter would find him, because she could 
be impressed to adopt him, and thus he would be educated; and 
he, having the Mechanical and Raising Gifts, which give one 
strong spiritual power, he would be thus fitted for the great 
task of bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt. And with 
the aid of Aaron, his brother, who had a spiritual gift of Speak- 
ing, they delivered them out of Egypt ; but finally, the Lord, in 
order to succeed in doing it, brought plagues on the Egyptians, 
and caused one to die in every family. When they had finally 
got delivered out of the power of the Egyptians, the Lord, 
through Moses, had to make very stringent and severe laws, to 
keep them in the right spiritual condition; and, when they 
finally arrived at the land of Canaan, it was necessary they 
should fight and conquer, and even destroy the people of that 
land, and the Lord helped them fight the battles, because it was 
necessary to carry on his great work of finally developing the 
inhabitants to a spiritual condition, and to build up His king- 
dom on earth. Thus it "has been in all ages since the deluge 
this work of His has been going on ; and it has been necessary, 
to effect it, that there should be wars, pestilences, famines, and 
earthquakes, and all has been to keep the Intellectual Depart- 
ment of man, representing the Lion, from getting power over 
the Spiritual; and of the Selfish, representing the Eagle, from 
getting power over the Domestic and Spiritual. 

Among the descendants of the Israelites were the prophets, 
Christ and his apostles ; thus showing that the work of the 
Lord with the Israelites was the means of giving the world a 
spirit whose spiritual powers will save the people of the w T orld 
from being lost in the pit of materialisms and undevelopment. 

The knowledge of this science of religion gives one an un- 
derstanding of the Bible, and of the whys and wherefores of it, 
and makes it so plain that all which has been a mystery can be 
explained — not only a part of it, but the whole. Christ's mira- 
cles, and why he taught in parables, is no mystery when this 
Science is understood, nor the Revelations of St. John. And 
all the miracles, or what has been called so, can be explained by 
this Science. 

Abraham's spiritual gifts were, first, the Impressional, and 
next, Prophecying, Psychologic, and Moving, by which power 
the spiritual manifestations were produced through him by his 
God. Isaac and Jacob had similar gifts, by which their God 
produced the manifestations through them; and Joseph had 
<ihe gifts of Faith, Prophecying, and Clarative. 



42 Development of the Human Family. 

The Psychologic Gift predominated with David, and the 
organ of Destruotiveness was his principal one, and Veneration 
next ; his Lett Receptivity was large, which gave him po\v.er to 
kill the lion and the bear, and to slay Goliah, because his organ 
ot' Destructiveness put into force the spiritual power received 
through his receptivity, and his Veneration being large, drew it 
more directly from God, the fountain of all power. Thus the 
spirits could psych ologise with his spiritual powers the strongest 
of wild animals, and make them subject to his will ; and also, 
by these powers, he threw the stone that killed Goliah. 

By the Psychological powers of Daniel were the lions' 
mouths shut ; as he said, " God hath sent his angels and shut 
their mouths," and they had done him no harm. 

The Apostles all had Speaking and Healing spiritual gifts ; 
and some of them had as many as six different kinds of those 
gifts. That was the reason why they were chosen, because 
they had those gifts ; and when they were enough developed 
they were sent forth to heal, and to preach the Gospel of 
Christ. But they did not teach the science of it, because they 
never had learned it. Christ had taught them the principles 
of it, which they could understand ; but the science he taught 
in parables, and those they never understood whilst in their 
bodies. So it was with St. Paul, who wrote more than one- 
third of the New Testament, which was made up of exhor- 
tation and philosophy ; and all the Christian theological teach - 
ers since have followed after him in preaching, in that respect 
more or less, without teaching the science. They have said, 
" Seek, and pray to God to bless you, and he will ; and seek 
for grace, and you will find it"; which is true, but never have 
they taught the modus operandi of its operations — that is, 
how to cultivate the spiritual gifts in a way that all the fac- 
ulties may be developed so as to produce harmony of devel- 
opment, and the principle upon which the blessing will come, 
or the right mode to produce harmony, which is necessary 
to prepare one to receive the necessary blessing, and to 
find the right grace to fit them for a high condition in 
heaven. The teaching of the principles of this Science, and 
the exhortations which have naturally followed, have pre- 
served its savor to that extent it has been the means of spir- 
itualizing many to a more or less heavenly condition, and 
brought the inhabitants of earth into a condition to learn this, 
the Harmonial Science of Development. Hence, as this great 
work of the Lord is accomplished, the discovery of His plan 
of salvation, and the manner and mode of perfecting it, His 
great w r ork of cultivating the spirits of mankind to a harmo- 
nious condition, and of learning them His plan of salvation, is 
more than half done. Therefore, the Rubicon is passed £ 



Development of the Human Family. 43 

Man, therefore, need not much longer grovel in darkness, but 
may arise to joy and gladness, and become what nature 
designed he should — a Spiritual, Intellectual, and Happy 
Being! , 

The knowledge of this Science will learn persons what is 
the cause of evil influences and temptations that lead them to 
do evil, how to resist them, the great importance of doing it, 
and show why, if you resist the devil, he will flee from you. 
Also, it will learn them the true reason why it is that as you 
sow you will reap, and the important need of sowing good 
seed, and upon good ground; and as our aspirations are, so 
will be our inspirations. 

But the elucidation of these things would be so lengthy, 
it would make too much matter for what the Author intended 
for this book. He will therefore leave it for some future 
time. 

The Author, in making up his Chart, has taken the form 
and adopted the localities of the organs with but little altera- 
tion of those of O. S. Fowler, who has done a good work 
towards manufacturing the wires 'of this Science, by teaching 
some of its philosophy, which he has done mostly by means 
of his Impression al spiritual gift, which my Intuition tells me 
predominates with him. But as he did not understand the 
Science of Man's Development, he has not got his Chart in 
accordance with it, because the science proper has but twenty - 
four organs, which are six in each department, but which may, 
in teaching its philosophy, be divided into a very large num- 
ber, upon the principle which Christ taught, symbolically, in 
his parable of the grain of mustard seed. The seed repre- 
sented the Science, and the herb and its branches the phi- 
losophy — that is, the principles of this Science are wide- 
spread and broad -cast like the branches of the mustard herb; 
and this is the meaning of that parable. The grain of seed rep- 
resents this Science of Development, and the herb and its 
branches the out -growth of it, which are its principles, 
and which are the greatest of all principles, so that the 
birds of the air, representing men, can light upon them — 
that is, that man can embrace its principles, and hold on to 
them as all the religious persons of the world have, and by so 
doing will keep enough of those principles in mankind to finally, 
by progression, bring them to a condition they can and will 
learn the Science, and understand what the grain of seed repre- 
sents, which will have the effect on them of a quickening spirit 
upon the branches, or its principles. All the religious persons of 
the world now sit either upon a smaller or larger one, as may be, 
and it is not known by any one here which of them occupies 
or sits on the largest branch. Be that as it may, there are 



44 Development of the Human Family. 

branches enough for all who have a spark of religion to hang 
to; even the savage of the forest occupies his branch, though 
it may be small, but those who have the most spiritual develop- 
ment occupy the largest and highest branches. 

And Christ spoke another parable thus: "The kingdom of 
en is like unto leaven, which a wornaa took, and hid in 
three measures of meal, till the whole w T as leavened." The ex- 
planation of this parable is this: One measure of meal represents 
God's Science and one Man's Science of Development of Man, 
and the other their philosophy, and the leaven the Holy Spirit, 
which is constantly working and influencing man to develop his 
Science to a degree of harmony with God ; and it will continue 
so to work until the sciences are blended in one, and all man- 
kind are leavened w r ith its principles, and that will produce the 
like of heaven. 

It w r ill be perceived that in this Chart the Receptivity is 
located by the word Intuition, and w r hich location is immedi- 
ately on each side of the organ of Veneration, and, as the Chart 
shows and indicates, those are the seat of the receptivity of 
spiritual influence of grace and power. This is an addition to 
Mr. Fowler's, and, as the Author thinks, a very important one, 
because it shows by what power and influence the faculties are 
cultivated. 

A beautiful representation of the twenty-four organs of man 
were shown to St. John, and recorded in his Revelations, fourth 
chapter, where Christ was represented to him as a throne, and 
one sat on it, and round about the throne were four and twenty 
seats with four and tw r enty elders sitting, having on their heads 
crowms of gold. The four and twenty seats represented the, 
twenty- four organs of His organism, and the twenty- four elders 
his tw r enty- four spiritual gifts, and the crowns of gold was the 
influence of the Holy Spirit which sat* on the throne, that was 
thrown on those organs. And the four beasts, with their six 
w T ings each, represented the four departments of that organism 
in the same manner it was to Ezekiel, which has been explained. 
Christ is here represented as the representative of mankind, 
or acting as the mediative power to develop them. He is now 
coming in clouds, because the inhabitants of earth are clouded 
in darkness by undevelopment, and can not be seen by them 
until they are cultivated out of that darkness — then they may 
behold him in all His glory, of which the greatest is His 
work of developing man. The Revelations of St. John are a 
symbolical represention of the Progressive Development of the 
Human Family from the Christian era until the millennium, 
through all fluctuations of good and evil times, dark ages and 
more enlightened ages, which were represented to St. John as 
woes that the inhabitants of the earth would have to experience 



Development of the Human Family. 45 

before that great and notable day of the Lord will come. But 
as it would make matter enough for a good sized book to ex- 
plain the Revelations of St. John in full, it will therefore be left 
for some future time. 

Now, to sum up and see what has been discovered by the 
Author, that is new to the world. 

First, He has discovered the great and all important truth 
that there is a complete and perfect Science of Development of 
the Human Family ; that, in order to effect this perfect devel- 
opment, it requires a co-operation of action of man with God ; 
that if man does act by seeking for God to influence him with 
holy aspirations and with sincerity of heart, God will send his 
angels to throw an influence upon him to learn him knowledge 
and wisdom ; and that there is no other science that will de- 
velop man to that condition, because he has most conclusively 
shown that its operations of development have been going on 
in all ages of the world — that it corresponds with all the 
phases of development recorded in the Bible; — in fact, that it 
is a perfect triumph over all other discoveries ever made, be- 
cause there was never one made before by which perfection 
could be arrived at, but this is one that will enable man to carry 
all discoveries in art and science, that have ever been made, 
to perfection — not only one of the arts, but all of them, and 
also all the sciences, not only of an intellectual nature, but of 
a moral and religious one. Glory be to God for the great wis- 
dom in His Science of Development and plan of salvation of 
the children of men ! 

Second^ By this discovery, not only this Science of Devel- 
opment has been discovered, but the modus operandi of the 
operations of its development, which will insure an ultimatum 
of it. And also the fact and great truth has been discovered 
that this is the Mother of all Sciences, and that what are 
called sciences are only branches of this Mother Science ; that 
in order to develop any that are now called sciences to perfec- 
tion, it has got to be effected by the operations and power of 
this Science — that is, by seeking and asking of God, with holy 
aspirations, spiritual influence and aid to develop the spiritual 
department of our nature, we will receive it, and thus, by ma- 
king the right application of it, which all may understand how 
to do by the study of all the departments of this Science, by 
which an equilibrium of the organization can be effected, and 
then the Comforter can and will teach man all things whatso- 
ever. But, as a consequence, this generation can not develop 
themselves to that condition, but may do much towards it, some 
more and some less, and they will be taught all things in pro- 
portion to their development and condition. 

Thirds By this discovery all the mysteries of Godliness have 



4(1 Development of the Human Family, 

been unveiled and opened to view to all except those who are 
blind because they will not see. 

The Author expects that many will oppose this Science 
being learned by the people, and being promulgated among 
them, because they will think it will be a disadvantage to the 
business of persons in their various avocations, in procuring a 
living. But if any should think so, they would be greatly mis- 
taken, because it would be the reverse: it would assist persons 
to feed and clothe themselves. The farmer could learn how to 
cultivate his land with the greatest ease and advantage, and so 
as to be successful in all his undertakings in raising his crops, 
by learning this Science, and seeking the kingdom of God and 
His righteousness in the right way, which he would understand 
how to do when he had learned it. So it will be with mechanics 
of every kind : the knowledge of this Science will learn them 
how to do their work to the best advantage, by learning them 
wisdom to invent things of every nature necessary for that pur- 
pose ; and this can be done by first cultivating the spiritual or- 
gans, which is seeking the kingdom of God and His righteous- 
ness, by which means their mechanical gifts may be developed 
to the greatest degree of perfection, and hence, as all have not 
got mechanical gifts in this generation, nor will not have before 
all will pass this life, those who have them may procure a living 
with much more ease than now, and at the same time learn wis- 
dom, obtain righteousness, and add greatly to their happiness 
which will be everlasting. And the same will apply to all busi- 
ness persons who are engaged in trade. The same improve- 
ment may be made, with the like results. 

But perhaps, some Preacher may think, " What w T ill I do for, 
a living, if all become righteous ? There will be none to preach 
to, and my living will be taken away from me!" But how 
short - sighted such an one must be. Because if he would but 
cast his eyes abroad over the land, could he not see a vast mul- 
titude of uncultivated people that need teaching and the learn- 
ing of knowledge to prepare them to understand this Science 
and its philosophy, who would be longing and ready to do so 
as soon as they were told there was such a Science, so that there 
would be a call, for that purpose, for ten thousand times as many 
preachers as there is now in the world, throughout the time of 
this generation, and perhaps for many more to come. Therefore 
all those who have the advantage of an education for a Preacher, 
and experience in speaking, would have all they could do in 
teaching those who are not educated and are without experience 
in these things. And as the knowledge of this Science will cer- 
tainly have the effect to check the growth of the selfishness of 
mankind, they will open their purses more freely, and every 
laborer will be considered worthy of his hire, and be paid liber- 
ally for it. 



Development of the Human Family. 47 

Some Lawyer may say " What shall I do for a living, if all 
become righteous? There will be no disputes or contention 
among them, consequently there will be no law suits, and hence 
my profession will be worth nothing, and what will I do for a liv- 
ing ? " But, O thou of little forethought ! has not God cared for 
all His children, and therefore has he not cared for you, by giv- 
ing you a capacity to procure, and education and strength to use 
it, and obtain an experience that has made you a public speaker, 
and thus fitted you, to a great extent, to learn and understand 
this Science of Development of Man and its philosophy, with 
but a little study, and to be a public teacher of it ? Surely the 
harvest is great, but the reapers are few: therefore there is labor 
for many times more teachers than there are those that are pre- 
pared for it, of every profession and name, and the call for them 
for teachers will be great, and their wages high. 

Be ye therefore, preachers, doctors, lawyers, and all others, 
not dismayed, but be glad and rejoice, for you stand on good 
ground, and by always abounding in the works of the Lord you 
can make it holy ground ; that is, by seeking for spiritual power 
and influence to develop your spiritual gifts, you will advance 
the cause of God in His great work of cultivating and develop- 
ing his children. And only think how much more enjoyment 
and happiness there would be in laboring to elevate mankind to 
a higher and more glorious condition than would be in doing 
something that will keep you still in a lower state of existence, 
for the purpose of making earthly dross, which is worthless, 
except to gratify a misdirected and perverted self-esteem. Be- 
cause what profiteth a man if he gain the whole world, and lose 
his own soul ; or what is man without cultivation and develop- 
ment ? If he possess ever so much of earthly goods, he can not 
associate with the righteous — although he may be in their 
midst, yet he will be unhappy there. "Blessed are the righte- 
ous, for they shall see the kingdom of God." 

But, say some, You must not seek to develop these gifts, be- 
cause it produces evil ; it causes some to become insane, others 
to commit crimes and to commit sin in various ways. If this 
is so, it is because it is not understood, and therefore it is not 
the fault of the Science but of the people; because they use its 
power in the wrong direction. It is a principle in nature that 
goes backwards and forwards. It can be carried one way, so 
one can perform necromancy, sorcery, and lead on to the lowest 
degree of degradation ; but this will be perverting the use God 
intended we should make of it, and that whioh he commands 
us not to do ; because He says, thou shalt do no evil, but live 
righteous all the days of thy life. Thus, this would be working 
it backwards. But it can be worked forwards, and be carried 
to the highest degree of cultivation, sublimity, and purity, so 



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that all evil may be overcome, as was virtually shown to the 
Egyptians in the manifestations of Moses, when he cast clown 
his rod, and it became a serpent, and the magicians cast down 
their rods, and they became serpents also, but that of Moses 
devoured those of the magicians, because his was produced by 
one who was in condition to receive the influence of the Holy 
Spirit, and on a mission the object of which was to elevate man- 
kind so they might, and would, eventually, overcome evil And 
the magicians were under the influence of the Evil One, which 
is to be subdued by good, and will be devoured by it, as the ser- 
pents of the magicians were by that of Moses. The truth is 
that the reason that some persons who have these gifts do not 
conduct themselves right is because they lack the right culti- 
vation of mind and a knowledge of this Science. 

The discovery and promulgation of the true principles of 
this Science will produce a great change in all the affairs of 
mankind. Men everywhere will soon be striving and seeking 
for intellectual, moral, and religious cultivation, instead of seek- 
ing and scrambling for the " almighty dollar," for the purpose 
of earthly aggrandizement, which only has the effect to deterio- 
rate the growth of their spiritual gifts, and make them miserable 
and unhappy. There will soon be new systems and modes of 
education, that will have their direction towards learning this 
Science, so when it is understood persons will seek the kingdom 
of God and his righteousness, that they may arrive at a condi- 
tion so that the Comforter can teach them all things. 

Objections may be raised against the style of the Author's 
composition, or its grammar. There may be good ground for 
doing so, and there may be too much repetition in it; never- 
theless, if it does not suit the taste of the fastidious, that will 
not affect its truthfulness. The Author's excuse is the want of 
experience in writing composition. The truth is that the organ- 
ization of us all were moulded with philosophy and not science ; 
hence the latter must be learned to understand it, therefore the 
Author has had to do so as far as he has got it; and of a con- 
sequence if he has got the Impressional Gift, he needs practice 
and cultivation to make it more perfect, and unless it is so he 
will have, like all others now in the form, more or less imper- 
fections. No spirit in the body is perfect — no, not one. And 
there is a certain principle with spiritual gifts that is not easily 
learned, because of the great diversity of organizations among 
persons. One may have nearly a perfect Impressional Gift, and 
if that person's Causality and Order are small, the composition 
impressed through that person would not be likely to be per- 
fectly grammatical nor in the best style, but practice and culti- 
vation would, of consequence, improve it. Therefore let all 
who are disposed to find fault with imperfections of others, first 



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examine themselves, and see if they are out of darkness before 
assailing others' imperfections. 

Since then there are none who are perfect, every one should 
be looking for the good sayings of persons, and not that which 
may not be of the best kind or in a fashionable style ; and by 
so doing the talents of all may be appreciated, and thus im- 
proved ; because it would give persons confidence to try to do 
so, so long as it is the habit or ways of people to underrate the 
talents of others, and make derision of them because the style 
of their composition does not suit their ideas of that which they 
think is a fashionable style, or strictly grammatical. 

It fc has been too much the habit, perhaps, in all ages, and is 
at the present time, among all people, to criticise the writings 
and sayings of others to such an extent as to deter many and 
many from cultivating their gifts of knowledge and wisdom, 
that would, if they had been encouraged to do so, or if they 
had not been afraid of critics. This is one great reason why 
the people have not become more enlightened. If it had been 
more the custom to appreciate talents, and encourage their 
cultivation in the past, is it not reasonable to suppose that the 
whole human family would have been far in advance of what 
they are now in intellectuality and spirituality ? 

But all the acts and operations of mankind that are done, 
which are wrong, are the results of undevelopment and lack of 
knowledge, and the remedy for this is now at hand, and that is 
this Science — the discovery of which and its operations, pre- 
scribes the remedy. And if all that read this pamphlet, and 
understand it, will apply the remedy it teaches and explains 
how to apply, to advance their development and gain knowl- 
edge as their consciences will dictate to them, they may soon 
see the glory of God, shining with all its brightness that was 
to Ezekiel, which was as the color of a beryl, a crystal, and a 
sapphire stone ; and Nature will speak to them the voice of wis- 
dom. Therefore, 

Man need not much longer dwell in darkness, 
Because the Lord has triumphed with goodness^ 
So that all who will, may hear His voice. 
Rejoice ! Rejoice ! all the world, Rejoice ! 






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2. Right Intuition. 



The Receptivity. 

The receptivity of spiritual power and influence. 
The receptivity of knowledge and wisdom. 



-» The Spiritual Department. 

1. Veneration. Love of God, and to worship Him — the prepondera- 

ting spiritual organ. 

2. Conscientiousness. Love of nobleness of character ; truth ; inate 

feeling to do right. 
3 Benevolence. Desire to see and make others happy ; willingness to 
sacrifice for that purpose ; kindness and sympathy for distress. 

4, Firmness. Decision and stability of character, 

5, Hope. Anticipation of future happiness and heavenly felicity. 

6, Self-Esteem. Self-respect; manly feelings ; pride of character. 



52 Development of the Human Family. 

Intellect ua I I hpa rim nit. 

1. Order, Harmony; system of tilings. 

2, Calculation. Ability to reckon figures, compute numbers, &c. > 

8. Causality. Tower of receiving and discerning principles, and of 
showing the relations of cause and effect. 

4. Form, Recollection of shape and configuration of things. 

5. Comparison. Perceptibility to compare, illustrate, criticise,- and 

generalize things. 

0. Construct 'ivencss. Mechanical ingenuity to invent, build machiney, 

&c. 

Domestic Department. 

1. Amaticeness. Lovo of the sexes and connubial attachment. 

2. Inhabiiivencss.. Love of home; attachment to the place where one 

has lived ; a good feeling towards mankind. 

3. Philoprogenitiveness. Love of children; fondness for pets parental 

attachment. • 

4. Affinitiveness. Attachment and love for the opposite sex; having 

like affinity. 

5. Tune. Sense of melody, and musical faculty. 

6. Time. Memory; and internal faculty. 

Selfish Department. 

1. Vitativeness. Love of existence; dread of annihilation. 

2. Acquisitiveness. Desire of possessing property and to keep it for 

selfish purposes. 

3. Secretiveness. Cunning; artful and deceiving propensity. 

4. Desiructweness. Energy and forcible power, and destroying disposi- 

tion. 

5. Combativeness. Resisting, resenting, fighting propensity. 

6. Cautiousness. A selfish disposition to guard self, property, and gen* 

eral interests. 



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